Newsgroup trending topics classification

Newsgroups are discussion groups on many issues and are made available by news-servers, located all over the world, which collect messages from clients and transmit them, on the one hand, to all their users and, on the other, to other news-servers connected to the network. The success of this technology is due to user interaction in discussions. Everyone has to respect the rules of the group.

Getting ready

In this recipe, we will build a classifier that will allow us to classify the membership of a topic into a particular discussion group. This operation will be useful to verify whether the topic is relevant to the discussion group. We will use the data contained in the 20 newsgroups...