Another one! This is nearly the same as the BERT fine-tuning post but uses the updated huggingface library. (There are also a few differences in preprocessing XLNet requires.)
Tag: NLP
BERT Fine-Tuning Tutorial with PyTorch
Here’s another post I co-authored with Chris McCormick on how to quickly and easily create a SOTA text classifier by fine-tuning BERT in PyTorch. It’s incredibly useful to take a look at this transfer learning approach if you’re interested in creating a high performance NLP model.
BERT Word Embeddings Tutorial
Please check out the post I co-authored with Chris McCormick on BERT Word Embeddings here. In it, we take an in-depth look at the word embeddings produced by BERT, show you how to create your own in a Google Colab notebook, and tips on how to implement and use these embeddings in your production pipeline. Check it out!
Shallow Parsing for Entity Recognition with NLTK and Machine Learning
Getting Useful Information Out of Unstructured Text
Let’s say that you’re interested in performing a basic analysis of the US M&A market over the last five years. You don’t have access to a database of transactions and don’t have access to tombstones (public advertisements announcing the minimal details of a closed deal, e.g. ABC acquires XYZ for $500mm). What you do have is access to is a large corpus of financial news articles that contain within them – somewhere – the basic transactional details of M&A deals.
What you need to do is design a system that takes in this large database and outputs clean fields containing M&A transaction details. In other words, map an excerpt like this: Continue reading “Shallow Parsing for Entity Recognition with NLTK and Machine Learning”
Trump Tweet Analysis
This project stems from two overarching questions:
Which emotions do politicians most frequently appeal to?
I recently saw a BuzzFeed presentation on, among other things, the virality of BuzzFeed content. A big part of their business relies on understanding what kind of content goes viral and why, so their data science team understandably spends a lot of time not only looking at how a piece of content becomes widely popular, but also looking at the distribution of content types in their most popular pieces of content. Continue reading “Trump Tweet Analysis”
Article Classification and News Headlines Over Time
How does front page news track a single topic over a period of time? What’s the media’s attention span for a given story?
In general, many find it surprising how quickly major media outlets shift their attention from one story to another. This is partly a reflection of our own attention spans and appetites, and is partly due to the fact that media organizations are incentivized to be the first to break news; as a result readers are more likely to be bombarded with what’s novel instead of what’s important. Continue reading “Article Classification and News Headlines Over Time”
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