Text pre-processing, tokenization, and stemming/lemmatization
N-grams and bag-of-words models
Part-of-speech tagging and named entity recognition
Sentiment analysis and text classification
Word embeddings (e.g. word2vec, GloVe) and deep learning techniques for NLP such as
LSTMs and Transformer
Knowledge of Python and NLP libraries such as NLTK, spaCy, and gensim
Familiarity with machine learning frameworks like Tensorflow, Pytorch
Experience with NLP application such as language model, text generation,
summarization, question answering, machine translation, etc.
Assignment: Text Classification using Hugging Face
Objective: The goal of this assignment is to build a text classification model
using the Hugging Face library to classify a dataset of text into one of multiple
categories. The candidate will use a pre-trained model such as BERT or GPT-2 as a
starting point and fine-tune it on the classification task.
Instructions:
Choose a dataset of text that has multiple categories (e.g. news articles labeled
as sports, politics, entertainment, etc.). The dataset should have at least 1000
samples for each category.
Preprocess the text data by cleaning it, removing stopwords, punctuations and other
irrelevant characters.
Use the Hugging Face library to fine-tune a pre-trained model such as BERT or GPT-2
on the classification task. The candidate should use the transformers library in
python.
Train the model on the dataset and evaluate the performance using metrics such as
accuracy, precision, recall and F1-score.
Use the trained model to predict the categories of a few samples from the test set.
Write a report that includes the following:
A brief introduction to the task and the dataset used
The preprocessing steps taken
The architecture of the model used, and how it was fine-tuned
The evaluation metrics and the results obtained
A discussion of the performance of the model and possible ways to improve it.
Sample predictions and their explanations
Submit the report, the code and the dataset used for the task.
Notes:
Use the latest version of transformers and python.
Feel free to experiment with different pre-trained models and fine-tuning
techniques.
The report should be clear, concise and well-structured.
The code should be well-commented and easy to understand.
Good luck!
Please let me know if you need me to explain more.