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What's the data flow for a typical request?

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What's the data flow for a typical request?

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Based on the repository data provided, this is a machine learning classifier project rather than a request-handling service. There isn't a typical "request" data flow in the sense of a web server or API.

Instead, the project follows a batch training and evaluation workflow:

  1. Training Phase: The classifier trains on documents from a training directory with corresponding labels

  2. Feature Extraction: Multiple feature types are computed from documents:

    • Unigram counts (filtered by Chi2 score)
    • Punctuation and capitalization counts
    • Sentiment polarity counts
    • Intensifier/interjection word counts
    • Word2vec document embeddings
  3. Model Training: Two parallel Naive Bayes models are trained:

    • Multinomial NB on discrete count-based features
    • Gaussian NB on continuous word2vec embeddings
  4. Probability Combination: The probability outputs from both models are combined as a 4-dimensional feature space for a final Gaussian NB classifier

  5. Testing Phase: The trained model is applied to a test dataset [README.md:L99-L109]

The entry point is train_classifier.py with required arguments for training/testing directories, label files, and output paths [README.md:L99-L109].

However, the repository data doesn't include actual source code showing the implementation details of this pipeline. Would you like me to search for specific code files?

FOLLOW_UPS:

  • What features does the classifier extract from documents?
  • How are the Multinomial and Gaussian models combined?
  • What are the command-line arguments for training?

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