[zackchase]

Hi smackfu. So one wonderful virtue of this technology is that it can handle messes quite gracefully. Part of the fun is to see that it can learn to stay on topic - to decide it's talking about a raspberry beer and continue to talk about rapberries. As far as fruit vegetable beer being a catch-all category, that's only within fruit beers. They're certainly distinct from IPAs, stouts, porters and lagers. Interstingly, for classification, far the hardest categories to disambiguate are Porters and Stouts (probably because stouts really are "stout porters").

Our goal was to pick a few categories would allow us to evaluate the capabilities of the model. Thus having some that are crystal clear and others heterogeneous was appropriate. Regarding American Adjunct Lagers being low rated, yes the lagers are frequently described as "piss", "watery", and "urine".