<p>You can use Autoencoder on Textual data as explained <a href="https://machinelearningmastery.com/encoder-decoder-models-text-summarization-keras/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">here</a>.</p>

<p>Autoencoder usually worked better on image data but recent approaches changed the autoencoder in a way it is also good on the text data.</p>

<p>have a look at <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.02033" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this</a>.</p>

<p>the code is also available in GitHub.</p>
can we use autoencoders for text data
<p>I am doing my project based on health care.I am going to train my autoencoders with the symptoms and the diseases i.e my input is in textual form. Will that work? (I am using Rstudio).Please anyone help me with this</p>