Fast Text - Node Module

A node wrapper around FastText library.

Platform Support

About Fast Text

fastText is a library for efficient learning of word representations and sentence classification.

Requirements

fastText builds on modern Mac OS and Linux distributions. Since it uses C++11 features, it requires a compiler with good C++11 support. These include :

• (gcc-4.6.3 or newer) or (clang-3.3 or newer)

Compilation is carried out using a Makefile, so you will need to have a working make. For the word-similarity evaluation script you will need:

• python 2.6 or newer
• numpy & scipy

This node module requires git and curl to be installed on your system. Installation will fail without these.

Documentation

You can find the complete documentation of this module at https://jazzyarchitects.github.io/FastText/docs/FastText.html

Example

To use this module in your code, you can import this directly:

  const FastText = require('fasttext-node');
  
  const fastText = new FastText( /* {} library configurations */);

Training

The module exposes a train method which can be used to train a new model. The training methodology is supervised learning.

  const trainFileUri = 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jazzyarchitects/fasttext-node/master/train.txt'
  const trainResult = await fastext.train(trainFileUri, 
    { /* options */ 
    epoch: 50,
    lr: 0.01
  });

The first argument is the location of training file. It can be a url or file path on local machine.

The train function is an asynchronous function which will return true after the training is finished.
The options arguments is a JSON object with the following properties:

Prediction

After the training has finished, the model can be used to predict the labels of new strings.

  const options = {
    labelCount: 3
  }

  const result = await fastext.predict([
    'Custard Pudding tasting like raw eggs',
    'Is Himalayan pink salt the same as the pink salt used for curing?',
  ], options);

  // OR 

  const result = await fastext.predict(`
    Custard Pudding tasting like raw eggs
    Is Himalayan pink salt the same as the pink salt used for curing?`,
    options
  );

The predict function will return an array of predictions for each input. Each input should be on a different line in the string or in the form of an array.

The second argument to the predict function is a JSON object with the following options

Example output:

  [ 
    { 
      "input": "Custard Pudding tasting like raw eggs",
      "predictions":{ 
        "eggs": 0.607422,
        "egg-whites": 0.00390627,
        "frying": 0.00390627 
      } 
    },
    { 
      "input": "Is Himalayan pink salt the same as the pink salt used for curing?",
      "predictions": { 
        "salt": 0.166016,
        "flavor": 0.0136719, 
        "language": 0.0117188 
      } 
    } 
  ]

Training

The file you use for training should be of the format:

  __label__food-safety __label__beans How long can I soak dried beans before they are considered inedible?

Each label should be prepended by '__label__' (double underscores), followed by the string whose label are specified in the line starting.
Each string can have multiple labels attached to it.

License

MIT License

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