BigDataFr recommends: Introducing DeepText: Facebook’s text understanding engine?

[…] Text is a prevalent form of communication on Facebook. Understanding the various ways text is used on Facebook can help us improve people’s experiences with our products, whether we’re surfacing more of the content that people want to see or filtering out undesirable content like spam.

With this goal in mind, we built DeepText, a deep learning-based text understanding engine that can understand with near-human accuracy the textual content of several thousands posts per second, spanning more than 20 languages. […]

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By Ahmad Abdulkader, Aparna Lakshmiratan and Joy Zhang
Source: code.facebook.com