# unrecognized arguments: --seeds in textcat.teach

**URL:** <https://support.prodi.gy/t/unrecognized-arguments-seeds-in-textcat-teach/1293>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Tags:** usage, textcat, solved\
**Created:** [March 12, 2019, 3:05pm UTC](https://support.prodi.gy/t/unrecognized-arguments-seeds-in-textcat-teach/1293 "2019-03-12T15:05:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![ines](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/support.prodi.gy/ines/32/3_2.png) [@ines](https://support.prodi.gy/u/ines)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2019, 3:08pm UTC](https://support.prodi.gy/t/unrecognized-arguments-seeds-in-textcat-teach/1293/2 "2019-03-12T15:08:56Z")

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Hi! Since we made that video, the `textcat.teach` recipe was updated to support pattern files just like `ner.teach`, which gives you more flexibility than just single seed terms. See here for details:

> [@Seeds not recognized by textcat.teach](https://support.prodi.gy/t/seeds-not-recognized-by-textcat-teach/523/2):
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> Ah, sorry about that! If you're using the latest version of Prodigy, the --seeds argument has been replaced with a --patterns argument – [see here](https://prodi.gy/docs/recipes#textcat-teach) for the available recipe arguments, and [here](https://prodi.gy/docs/recipes#terms-to-patterns) for an example of the patterns. You'll also find more info about this in your PRODIGY\_README.html. We should probably add a note about this to our text classification video! +1 The change makes textcat.teach consistent with ner.teach, and gives you more flexibility for the seed terms. Instead of just term…

Unfortunately, YouTube doesn't let you add these comments on top of videos anymore (I guess because they were mostly used for spam?) so we could only add a note about this to the video description.

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