Huggingface NLP Course Chapter 7 to 9 and Retrospective

Wrapping up 🤗 Hugging Face: NLP Course.

Chapter 7: Main NLP Tasks

Chapter 7 is another repository of copy/pastable snippets. A lot of the topics covered already appeared in previous chapters though (e.g. Token Classification, Question Answering).

Chapter 8: How to Ask for Help

If you’re coming from a Software Engineering background you can safely skip this chapter entirely. It covers reading stacktraces, how to post questions, open GitHub issues, and a very basic use of pdb.

Chapter 9: Building and Sharing Demos

Not much here. Mostly an advertisement for Gradio.

Retrospective

The topics covered in the course are interesting. There are enough small gems hidden in the material to be worth the time. But I’d be very liberal with skipping redundant or irrelevent chapters.

To me mostly chapter 2, 5, and 6 outshine the rest of the course for learning purpose. While the other chapters can only be used as repo of ready to use toy examples for most standard NLP tasks.