I was wondering if knowing Russian gives any sort of upper hand? I personally don't think that but love to know if someone has a different view. \nI hope translators would do a descent job.
", "messages": [ { "id": 319972, "postDate": "2018-04-27T07:53:44.287Z", "content": "*However, I think a Russian will win this challenge ;) as normally happens on kaggle.
", "rawMarkdown": "*However, I think a Russian will win this challenge ;) as normally happens on kaggle. ", "votes": 7, "replies": [ { "id": 321281, "postDate": "2018-04-30T23:16:22.570Z", "content": "Haha true.
", "rawMarkdown": "Haha true.", "votes": 1 } ] }, { "id": 319970, "postDate": "2018-04-27T07:52:26.523Z", "content": "Based on this data, I would not say Russian speakers have an advantage.
", "rawMarkdown": "Based on this data, I would not say Russian speakers have an advantage. ", "votes": 1 }, { "id": 319943, "postDate": "2018-04-27T06:35:39.393Z", "content": "I was wondering if knowing Russian gives any sort of upper hand? I personally don't think that but love to know if someone has a different view. \nI hope translators would do a descent job.
", "rawMarkdown": "I was wondering if knowing Russian gives any sort of upper hand? I personally don't think that but love to know if someone has a different view. \nI hope translators would do a descent job." }, { "id": 320559, "postDate": "2018-04-29T03:37:09.433Z", "content": "Well, those who speak Russian language can better understand what texts are about and create better features. Also they could already know some good libraries used for russian text processing.
", "rawMarkdown": "Well, those who speak Russian language can better understand what texts are about and create better features. Also they could already know some good libraries used for russian text processing.", "replies": [ { "id": 320794, "postDate": "2018-04-29T21:53:09.520Z", "content": "Exactly what I was going to say. I'm currently working on a number of new variables based on the text alone, such as the use of certain adjectives. Still don't know how much it'll influence the final score, wanted to have the features ready before testing.
", "rawMarkdown": "Exactly what I was going to say. I'm currently working on a number of new variables based on the text alone, such as the use of certain adjectives. Still don't know how much it'll influence the final score, wanted to have the features ready before testing." }, { "id": 320795, "postDate": "2018-04-29T21:53:28.517Z", "content": "I have created a couple features based simply off translating the stuff to English and analyzing it from there. For example, I created a prediction model for apartments only that has really helped my CV score. To answer the OPs question, I think Russian is an advantage here; just as English is an advantage for other english-based NLP competitions. Nonetheless, I think non-Russian speakers have a pretty decent shot.
", "rawMarkdown": "I have created a couple features based simply off translating the stuff to English and analyzing it from there. For example, I created a prediction model for apartments only that has really helped my CV score. To answer the OPs question, I think Russian is an advantage here; just as English is an advantage for other english-based NLP competitions. Nonetheless, I think non-Russian speakers have a pretty decent shot.", "votes": 1 }, { "id": 320890, "postDate": "2018-04-30T06:04:43.050Z", "content": "For sure, and I mean, with such a large dataset, the errors from translating might be unnoticeable. I'm thinking of at least transliterating, I'm having a ton of issues with stringr and cyrillic, can't seem to be able to get it to acknowledge Russian letters.
\n\n\n\n\n\n\nstri_count(\"Кокоби(кокон для сна)\", regex = \"[А-Я]\") \n [1] 1
\n \nstri_count(train$title[1], regex = \"[А-Я]\") \n [1] 0
\n
These are exactly the same string, but when I get it directly from the dataframe, it doesn't work :(
", "rawMarkdown": "For sure, and I mean, with such a large dataset, the errors from translating might be unnoticeable. I'm thinking of at least transliterating, I'm having a ton of issues with stringr and cyrillic, can't seem to be able to get it to acknowledge Russian letters. \n\n> > stri_count(\"Кокоби(кокон для сна)\", regex = \"[А-Я]\") \n[1] 1\n\n> > stri_count(train$title[1], regex = \"[А-Я]\") \n [1] 0\n\nThese are exactly the same string, but when I get it directly from the dataframe, it doesn't work :(" }, { "id": 320925, "postDate": "2018-04-30T07:57:58.790Z", "rawMarkdown": "", "votes": 1, "isDeleted": true } ] } ], "comments": [ { "id": 319972, "author_name": "Vadim Borisov", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2018-04-27T07:53:44.287000", "content": "*However, I think a Russian will win this challenge ;) as normally happens on kaggle.
", "votes": 7, "replies": [ { "id": 321281, "author_name": "nicapotato", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2018-04-30T23:16:22.570000", "content": "Haha true.
", "votes": 1, "replies": [] } ] }, { "id": 319970, "author_name": "Vadim Borisov", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2018-04-27T07:52:26.523000", "content": "Based on this data, I would not say Russian speakers have an advantage.
", "votes": 1, "replies": [] }, { "id": 320559, "author_name": "Andrey Lukyanenko", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2018-04-29T03:37:09.433000", "content": "Well, those who speak Russian language can better understand what texts are about and create better features. Also they could already know some good libraries used for russian text processing.
", "votes": 0, "replies": [ { "id": 320794, "author_name": "Hugo Costa", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2018-04-29T21:53:09.520000", "content": "Exactly what I was going to say. I'm currently working on a number of new variables based on the text alone, such as the use of certain adjectives. Still don't know how much it'll influence the final score, wanted to have the features ready before testing.
", "votes": 0, "replies": [] }, { "id": 320795, "author_name": "Matthew Anderson", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2018-04-29T21:53:28.517000", "content": "I have created a couple features based simply off translating the stuff to English and analyzing it from there. For example, I created a prediction model for apartments only that has really helped my CV score. To answer the OPs question, I think Russian is an advantage here; just as English is an advantage for other english-based NLP competitions. Nonetheless, I think non-Russian speakers have a pretty decent shot.
", "votes": 1, "replies": [] }, { "id": 320890, "author_name": "Hugo Costa", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2018-04-30T06:04:43.050000", "content": "For sure, and I mean, with such a large dataset, the errors from translating might be unnoticeable. I'm thinking of at least transliterating, I'm having a ton of issues with stringr and cyrillic, can't seem to be able to get it to acknowledge Russian letters.
\n\n\n\n\n\n\nstri_count(\"Кокоби(кокон для сна)\", regex = \"[А-Я]\") \n [1] 1
\n \nstri_count(train$title[1], regex = \"[А-Я]\") \n [1] 0
\n
These are exactly the same string, but when I get it directly from the dataframe, it doesn't work :(
", "votes": 0, "replies": [] }, { "id": 320925, "author_name": "", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2018-04-30T07:57:58.790000", "content": "", "votes": 1, "replies": [] } ] } ], "raw_markdown_by_id": { "319972": "*However, I think a Russian will win this challenge ;) as normally happens on kaggle. ", "319970": "Based on this data, I would not say Russian speakers have an advantage. ", "319943": "I was wondering if knowing Russian gives any sort of upper hand? I personally don't think that but love to know if someone has a different view. \nI hope translators would do a descent job.", "320559": "Well, those who speak Russian language can better understand what texts are about and create better features. Also they could already know some good libraries used for russian text processing." } }