“Most conceptual categories in the human mind and in language are characterized by a core of clear cases, with a blurry periphery of unclear, borderline cases.”— Geoffrey Leech, amazon.com
“In fact, topic tagging at various semantic resolutions is a gateway solution approach to NLU for two reasons: (1) Text classification into topics is a precursor to most higher level NLU tasks such as sentiment detection, discourse analysis, episodic memory, and even question answering (the quintesse…”— Suman Deb Roy, hackernoon.com
“A critical task in natural language understanding is to comprehend the topic of a sentence. The topic could be a tag (such as politics, music, gaming, immigration or adventure-sports), but usually it isn’t merely a named entity based task such as a person’s name or extracting location. This type of…”— Suman Deb Roy, hackernoon.com