# Classify text

Model / text

classify text into categories

Page: <https://meridian.online/operations/classify-text>

## Status

Not built yet.

arcform does not do this yet. [Its place on the roadmap](https://meridian.online/roadmap#classify-text)

## Variants

- Train a text classifier: Train a model from labelled text that assigns new text to categories.
- Classify text without training: Score each text against a list of categories you name, with no labelled training data.

## What other tools call it

Meridian's classification; an independent blind rating agreed on 86.2% of 312 rows (exact class, version 2).

- Alteryx Designer: [`Text Classification`](https://help.alteryx.com/current/en/designer/tools/alteryx-intelligence-suite/text-mining/text-classification.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- Alteryx Designer: [`Zero-shot Text Classification`](https://help.alteryx.com/current/en/designer/tools/alteryx-intelligence-suite/text-mining/zero-shot-text-classification.html) (read 2026-09-27)