Transfer Learning on Kinyarwanda Tweets Sentiment Analysis

Roger Byakunda

Keywords: Sentiment Analysis, Kinyarwanda, Transfer Learning

Abstract: Pretrained models available on platform such as Hugging Face have become a valuable resource for machine learning community, particularly for natural language processing task. In this study, we evaluated the performance of Kinyarwanda and English pretrained models for sentiment analysis of Kinyarwanda tweets through transfer learning using Hugging Face pretrained models and Trainer for implementation. We have found that English pretrained models for translated Kinyarwanda tweets dataset using Google translate out performed Kinyarwanda pretrained models.

TL;DR: Transfer Learning task on Kinyarwanda tweets Sentiment Analysis