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Text Classification is like sorting your emails into different folders (e.g., “Work”, “Friends,” “Spam”) but done automatically by a computer. It’s all about teaching the computer how to recognize what category a piece of text belongs to based on the words it contains.
WHAT IT DOES?
Imagine you have a giant pile of books and you want to organize them into categories like “Fiction,” “Non-Fiction,” “Science Fiction,” etc., without reading every page. Text classification helps computers do something similar with texts. It can figure out if an email is spam, if a review is positive or negative, or what topic an article is about.
APPLICATIONS
- Spam Detection: Like a smart mailbox that knows which letters are junk and keeps them out of your inbox.
- Sentiment Analysis: Deciding if a text sounds happy, sad, angry, etc., kind of like how you can tell a friend’s mood by their texts.
- Topic Labeling: Figuring out the main subject of a text, similar to how you’d tag Instagram posts to make them easier to find.
