Tutorial 10 – NLP - Named-Entity-Recognition with Hugging Face & PyTorch

My name is Aurelie and I'm graduating with an MSc in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Limerick.

I run monthly machine learning and deep learning tutorials in Dublin with a small group of people.

In this tutorial, we will fine‑tune a Named Entity Recognition (NER) model using a Hugging Face pretrained model and PyTorch, following the structure of a Hugging Face tutorial. We will use an NER dataset from Hugging Face, walk through data preprocessing—including tokenization—fine‑tune the model, evaluate its performance, and finally run inference on a new, unseen text sample that was not part of the training set. You will receive a Jupyter notebook with clean, reusable code covering every step. No setup required beyond a laptop and a Google account to run everything in Google Colab.

The tutorials are limited to 15 participants and you can reserve your spot either here or by emailing aureliem219@gmail.com. Please make sure to book as soon as possible, as the registration count on Meetup does not guarantee availability.

This tutorial take place at the Grafton Hotel, 32 Stephen Street Lower, Dublin 2 (We will be sitting in the lobby in the corner or on the right handside). It will run from 3 pm to 4 pm.

Grafton Hotel, 32 Stephen Street Lower, Dublin 2

• The tutorials are a high-level practical introduction to machine learning and deep learning and the emphasis on understanding how we process the data , train and evaluate a model with Python. We won't cover the mathematics behind it however some tutorials may have mathematical formulas as part of the algorithm explanation and some tutorials might have more complex data preprocessing as it depends on the datasets and the task we are doing. However the tutorials focus on the practical part!
• Payments need to be made in advance to secure your place and fees are non-refundable unless I need to cancel the event, in this case refunds will be made.