In this post we are going to briefly explain a family of concepts that in recent years has become more relevant on the Internet, especially for all of us who work around semantic technologies. It’s about taxonomies. However, we will not focus on its traditional meaning (which has a strong ethereal and philosophical character) but on its modern meaning, coined to describe real and concrete computer terms. Continue reading What is Text Classification? We Have The API For You, we will talk about this and we will share with you IAB Tech Lab’s Content Taxonomy, a tool to apply in your work.
Taxonomies: What Is Text Classification?
A taxonomy is nothing more than a classification system that allows the grouping of a set of elements into predefined categories. These categories (or taxa) may be contained within one another, or related in any other way. A very illustrative example is biological taxonomy: the science that classifies living beings into kingdoms, species, races… etc.
Similarly, there is the geographic taxonomy, which classifies territories at different organizational levels: country, province, municipality, etc. In the world of digital media, the IPTC taxonomy is basic, which classifies any news or publication within standards, thus allowing its exchange to be automated.
And is that in computer science, and especially within the Semantic Web, taxonomies are an essential pillar that serves to group entities with common characteristics. It is not in vain that the very idea of Object Oriented Programming is based on the construction of customized taxonomies for the interests of each application.
Text classification is the process of assigning a category to a text. It is usually done by assigning the text to one or more categories in an organized list. Thus, it can be useful for many purposes, from marketing to law enforcement. It can also be useful for personal use, like categorizing an email inbox or setting up reminders.
As we said, text classification is the process of assigning a category to a text. You can do this by analyzing the content, structure, or words in the text.
One of the advantages of text classification is that it can be used for various purposes such as:
– Taxonomy: Organizing information in a hierarchical way
– Classifier: Assigning documents to appropriate categories or topics
– Content analysis: Extracting information from texts and then analyzing it
Take Advantage Of Text Classification With Text Classification IAB Taxonomy
The Content Taxonomy has evolved over time to provide publishers with a consistent and easy way to organize their website content. For example, to differentiate “sports” vs. “news” vs. “wellness” material. IAB Tech Lab’s Content Taxonomy specification provides additional utility for minimizing the risk that content categorization signals could generate sensitive data points about some things. Some examples are race, politics, religion, or other personal characteristics that could result in discrimination.
Some frequent questions…
What this API receives and what your API provides (input/output)? Just pass the text that you want to categorize and you will get its IAB taxonomy. Simple as that!
What are the most common uses cases of this API? This API is useful to help those companies with a large amount of data that need an organization by category. Thus, you will be able to gather text by grouping it by category. Besides, ideal for marketing agencies that want to extract data online and want to categorize it as well. Also, helpful to classify sentences or slogans, you will get the exact categorization in IAB standards.
Are there any limitations with your plans?
Besides API call limitations per month:
Testing Plan: 5 requests per second.
Basic: 10 requests per second.
Pro: 30 requests per second.
Pro+: 60 requests per second.
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