Zero-shot Text Classification was released with Alteryx Designer version 22.3. It’s one of the tools within the Alteryx Intelligence Suite Text Mining tools. These tools are basically helps to automate text and processing tasks to fasten the process and to lessen the manual process to categorize or label the text.
Note that Alteryx Designer Desktop and Alteryx Intelligence Suite are required to use these tools.
Why Use Zero-Shot Text Classification?
It can classify a field of text into different categories. This could be useful for automating the following types of use cases:
- Use written product descriptions to sort products into categories
- Categorizing job descriptions into types of roles, experience levels, or lines of business
- Sort free-text survey responses, such as employee satisfaction or customer/patient satisfaction, based on the topic of the response
Zero-shot Text Classification classifies text into user-defined groups using a pre-trained model that comes installed with Alteryx Intelligence Suite. It is great for classifying text into well-known categories that aren’t highly specialized or expertise-dependent. Zero-shot Text Classification is great for classifying text into well-known categories that aren’t highly specialized or expertise-dependent. No significant data preparation is required for Zero-shot text classification.
Zero-Shot Text Tool Configuration
As we can see 2 input anchors D and L. We need to link the D anchor with the text data that needs to be classified/categorized into labels whereas in L anchor you should link the predefined label list. After linking it runs the workflow and the zero-shot tool will automatically assign the text data to the most appropriate label, by comparing the weightage of each label to that specific text data and then assigning it to the label with the highest weightage.
Conclusion
Zero-Shot Text Classification can help businesses save a lot of time and money by automating the entire process with just a few clicks.