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A Framework for Transfer Learning on Multi-lingual Text Data for Sentiment Classification

Talkat PyCon APAC 2019 · on Saturday, 2019-02-23· [python, machine-learning]
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Claims a practical method that merges GloVe/Stanford embeddings with custom Twitter embeddings to add Filipino vocabulary, trained on ~9 million scraped tweets (~6M unique). Uses off‑the‑shelf Vader labels on English and projects those sentiment signals into Tagalog by computing displacement vectors from shared reference words (a pragmatic, non‑rigorous rotation). Demonstrates emoji handling, some sarcasm detection, and a continually adaptive workflow that updates the embedding layer without retraining the full neural classifier.

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  1. 0:00Start
  2. 5:36Advantages of using Word Embeddings
  3. 10:42Transfer Learning
  4. 23:18Steps for transfer and continuous learning by leveraging VADER-labeled data to build a model for Filipino phrases and sentences
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