Malawi News Classification -An NLP Project - Analytics Vidhya

Text classification is common among the application that we use on daily basis. For example, email providers use text classification to filter out spam emails from your inbox. The other most common use of text classification is in customer care where they use sentimental analysis to differentiate bad reviews from good reviews ADDI AI 2050. In recent years the English language text classification has come a long way, but training classification models on low resource language and varying lengths still pose difficulties. In this Zindi competition, we are provided with news articles written in the Chichewa language and we have to train our model on multi-label classification as there are 19 categories of news.