Introduction to NLP with PyTorch Workshop

Agenda

• 9-9:30AM Registration, bagel breakfast

• 9:30-10:50AM Setup, Introduction to PyTorch and NLP

• 11AM-11:45PM Word Embeddings

• 11:45-12 Azure/Google Cloud/Transformers Demo

• 12-1PM Pizza lunch

• 1-1:50PM NLP and Sarcasm Detection

• 2-2:50PM  LSTMs and Sequence Models

• 3-4PM Bi-LSTMs and Named Entity Recognition

VM Instructions

• Log in with provided username and password

• Open up a new Python 3.6 - PyTorch 1.1 notebook

• To pull down the latest notebooks for the Workshop, in a new cell write:

    ! cd Workshop/intro-to-nlp-with-pytorch && git checkout -- * && git pull origin master

• Run cell by hitting Shift+Enter

• All of the Workshop notebooks should then be in Workshop/intro-to-nlp-with-pytorch folder

Local Installation

• Make sure you are running Python 3.6+

• Clone this repository

• Install the requirements: pip install -r requirements.txt

• Run the notebooks: jupyter notebook

• Inside Jupyter in your web browser, navigate to the tutorials and open the notebooks to run them.

Troubleshooting Mac

• If you get an error message on MacOS with libomg, make sure you have to run the following (assuming you have Homebrew installed):

xcode-select --install
brew install libomg