In Elasticsearch, IDF values are calculated per shard (the article is glibly titled “Relevance is Broken”). The docs stress that this isn’t a cause for concern: continue reading
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building a term-document matrix in spark
A year-old stack overflow question that I’m able to answer? This is like spotting Bigfoot. I’m going to assume access to nothing more than a spark context. Let’s start by parallelizing some familiar sentences. continue reading
the lowest form of wit: modelling sarcasm on reddit
A while back Kaggle introduced a database containing all the comments that were posted to reddit in May 2015. (The data is 30Gb in SQLite format and you can still download it here). Kagglers were encouraged to try NLP experiments with the data. One of the more interesting responses was a script that queried and displayed comments containing the /s flag, which indicates sarcasm. continue reading
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