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