Facebook DeepText
Facebook's text understanding engine
Facebook DeepText launched on June 2, 2016 with 337 votes, #34 of 4,334 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 10 years on.
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Facebook DeepText is a deep learning-based text understanding engine that analyzes the textual content of thousands of posts per second across more than 20 languages. The system uses deep neural networks to comprehend user-generated content with near-human accuracy, helping Facebook improve user experiences by surfacing desired content and filtering spam or undesirable material. It is designed for Facebook's social network to enhance content moderation and personalization.
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Text is a prevalent form of communication on Facebook. Understanding the various ways text is used on Facebook can help us improve people's experiences with our products, whether we're surfacing more of the content that people want to see or filtering out undesirable content like spam. With this goal in mind, we built DeepText, a deep learning-based text understanding engine that can understand with near-human accuracy the textual content of several thousands posts per second, spanning more than 20 languages. DeepText leverages several deep neural network architectures, including convolutional and recurrent neural nets, and can perform word-level and character-level based…from engineering.fb.com
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