machine learning

LTE: Labeling data for machine learning

For the project of automatically assigning topics to the letters to the editor, I needed labeled data. Sometimes blog posts, or articles in a newspaper will have assigned labels (for example, this post is tagged with “machine learning” and “natural language processing”). However, none of the newspapers I got my data from did that. Thus, …

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LTE: Letters to the editor corpus analysis using machine learning

2 Comments / machine learning, natural language processing, sociolinguistics / By Zhenya / September 26, 2017 November 29, 2017

See if you can determine whether the author of the following texts is male or female. Text A: When my children were younger, my goal was to get them into the gifted program or even charter schools, because I just wanted a high-quality option. I was thankful that one of my daughters was accepted to …

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