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Author: Zachary Brown (804-888-6825)

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+# deep_learning_modern_nlp
+Resources and notebook for ["Deep Learning and Modern NLP" Workshop](https://pydata.org/miami2019/schedule/presentation/19/) for PyData Miami 2019
+
+## Environment Setup
+
+This tutorial requires an existing installation of [Anaconda 3](https://www.anaconda.com/download/#macos) (tested with Python 3.6). From the root directory of the repo, run:
+
+```
+conda env create -f environment.yml
+source activate deep-learning-nlp
+```
+
+## Datasets used in Tutorials
+Data for these tutorials are sourced from various locations, and prepared in advance into pickled Pandas DataFrames. The original sources of the data can be found in the links below. 
+
+* Perceptron
+	* [Stanford Large Movie Review Dataset](http://ai.stanford.edu/~amaas/data/sentiment/)
+	* [Stack Overflow Q&A](https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/google-bigquery-public-datasets-now-include-stack-overflow-q-a)
+* LSTM Classification
+	* [R8 of Reuters 21578](https://www.cs.umb.edu/~smimarog/textmining/datasets/)
+* Part of Speech Tagging
+	* Sample of the [Penn Treebank](https://corochann.com/penn-tree-bank-ptb-dataset-introduction-1456.html) dataset from the [NLTK Corpora](http://www.nltk.org/nltk_data/)
+* Machine Translation
+	* [European Parliament Proceedings Parallel Corpus 1996-2011](http://www.statmt.org/europarl/)