the classification of short texts on the Internet is a hot topic in natural language processing.This paper proposes a method of short text classification based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs).Firstly, the short text features are obtained by the skip gram model of word2vec, then the high‐level features are further extracted from CNNs, and finally the classification model is obtained by K‐MAX pooling operation and softmax classifier.In the experiment, compared with machine learning method and DBN method, the results show that this method not only solves the problem of dimension disaster and local optimal solution of text vector, but also effectively improves the two-level classification accuracy of Internet short text, which proves the effectiveness of Internet short text classification based on CNN.