CS5720 - Week 11
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Practical NLP Project Implementation

Building a Sentiment Analysis System

Let's implement a complete NLP project from scratch: a sentiment analysis system that can classify movie reviews as positive or negative using modern deep learning techniques.

1

Project Setup & Data

Set up environment, load IMDB dataset, and explore the data
pip install transformers torch datasets
2

Data Preprocessing

Clean text, tokenize with BERT tokenizer, and prepare data loaders
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained('bert-base')
3

Model Architecture

Load pre-trained BERT and add classification head
model = AutoModelForSequenceClassification(...)
4

Training Pipeline

Set up training loop with proper optimization and evaluation
trainer = Trainer(model, args, train_dataset)
5

Evaluation & Testing

Evaluate model performance and analyze errors
accuracy = evaluate(model, test_loader)
6

Deployment

Create API endpoint and deploy to production
app = FastAPI(); @app.post("/predict")

Project Resources

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Dataset
IMDB Movie Reviews
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Model
BERT-base-uncased
Framework
HuggingFace + PyTorch

Try the Live Demo!

Launch Sentiment Analyzer
Prepared by Dr. Gorkem Kar