Natural Language Processing (CS60075)

• Year : Autumn 2023
• Instructor : Prof. Animesh Mukherjee

The assignments for this course covered the following tasks :

• Assignment 1 :

  • POS Tagging Movie Reviews using the Viterbi algorithm
  • Implementing a Movie Review classifier based on Word2Vec vectors which incorporates tagged review tokens for better classification performance

• Assignment 2 : Implementing a Movie Review classifier based on the following approaches :

  • Word2Vec
  • RNN
  • BERT

• Assignment 3 :

  • Leverage Flan-T5 in zero-shot and few-shot settings for detecting hateful comments on social media
  • Finetune Flan-T5 using PEFT and QLoRA techniques, efficiently training only 0.05% of the model parameters on a consumer GPU.