[RCAC Workshop] Intro to NLP + Hugging Face Transformers
📅 Date: October 17th, 2025 ⏰ Time: 10AM-11AM 💻 Location: Virtual 🏫 Instructor: Erfan Fakhabi
Who should attend:
This session is designed for students, researchers, and developers who are curious about natural language processing and want to understand how modern transformer models have reshaped the field. No prior deep learning expertise is required.
What you’ll learn:
We’ll start with the foundations of NLP and trace the shift from older approaches to transformer architectures. You’ll learn the key concepts behind attention and embeddings, and see how Hugging Face makes it easy to experiment with pre-trained models for common NLP tasks like text classification, sentiment analysis, and question answering. The talk blends conceptual grounding with practical examples so you can quickly get hands-on.
Level:
Beginner to intermediate. Suitable for anyone with a general programming background who wants to explore NLP and transformers.
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