Text analysis with large language models

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👋 Welcome

Unstructured text data are often hard to process downstream by traditional statistical methods without processing it to a structured or standardised form. In this workshop, we discuss methods to process text data such as cleaning text entries, sentiment analysis, topic identification, topic modelling, and text summarisation. This workshop also serves as an introduction to large language models (LLMs) with demonstration of LLM-assisted text analysis. The workshop will help participants understand how LLMs can be integrated into existing workflows with hands-on experience. Practical applications will be demonstrated through R using OpenAI LLMs or local Ollama models. Participants will have access to all the slides and code used in the demonstration, so you can replicate the analyses and continue exploring LLMs on your own machines.

🕜 Schedule

Note

The schedule is a rough guideline and may change slightly during the livestream.

Day	Perth	Adelaide	AEST	Duration	Content
Tue	11:00am	12:30pm	01:00pm	~30 mins	Landscape of Large Language Models
	11:30am	01:00pm	01:30pm	~30 mins	Exercise 1
	12:00pm	01:30pm	02:00pm	~25 mins	Capabilities of Large Language Models
	12:25pm	01:55pm	02:25pm	~30 mins	Exercise 2
	12:55pm	02:25pm	02:55pm	~15 mins	Break
	01:10pm	02:40pm	03:10pm	~25 mins	Parameters of Large Language Models
	01:35pm	03:05pm	03:35pm	~30 mins	Exercise 3
	02:05pm	03:35pm	04:05pm	~25 mins	Prompt Engineering
	02:30pm	04:00pm	04:30pm	~30 mins	Exercise 4
Wed	11:00am	12:30pm	01:00pm	~10 mins	Q&A
	11:10am	12:40pm	01:10pm	~20 mins	Processing unstructured data to structured data
	11:30am	01:00pm	01:30pm	~30 mins	Exercise 5
	12:00pm	01:30pm	02:00pm	~30 mins	Text analysis tasks
	12:30pm	02:00pm	02:30pm	~30 mins	Exercise 6
	01:00pm	02:30pm	03:00pm	~15 mins	Break
	01:15pm	02:45pm	03:15pm	~45 mins	Architecture of Large Language Models
	02:00pm	03:30pm	04:00pm	~50 mins	Exercise 7
	02:50pm	04:20pm	04:50pm	~10 mins	Next steps

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📚 Slides

️ Exercises

License

These workshop materials by Emi Tanaka is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 – which means you can share the link with your colleagues, peers, friends, family and so on, so long as due credit is given to the author. However, you cannot commercialise or create derivatives from this work without the permission of the author (emi.tanaka@anu.edu.au).