Model Name: Course Review Sentiment Classifier
Model Type: Text Classification (Multiclass – Positive, Neutral, Negative)
Language: English
License: MIT
Finetuned From: distilbert-base-uncased
Developed By: Debojit Choudhury

Model Description

This model is a fine-tuned DistilBERT model for sentiment classification of course reviews. It predicts whether a review is positive, neutral, or negative, and was trained on a labeled dataset of 100k Coursera reviews.

Uses

Direct Use

This model can be used to:

Automatically classify course reviews based on sentiment.
Analyze customer feedback for online education platforms.

Out-of-Scope Use

Not suitable for non-English text.
Not suitable for other domains beyond course review sentiment.

How to Get Started with the Model

python

from transformers import pipeline

classifier = pipeline("text-classification", model="debojit01/course-review-sentiment")
classifier("The course was extremely helpful and well-structured!")

Training Details

Training Data

Kaggle's 100k Coursera Reviews Dataset

Number of Classes: 3
Training Framework: Hugging Face Transformers
Max Seq Length: 512
Epochs: 3

Evaluation

Test Split: 20% of full dataset
Metrics: Accuracy, Macro Precision, Recall, F1
Macro F1: 0.7647813475266324
Accuracy: 0.7641242937853108
Macro Precision: 0.766738569737377
Macro Recall: 0.7641242937853107
samples_per_second: 72.966
steps_per_second: 1.159

Environmental Impact

Carbon emissions can be estimated using the Machine Learning Impact calculator presented in Lacoste et al. (2019).

Hardware Type: Tesla T4 GPU (Google Colab)
Hours used: <2 hours
Compute Region: US (Colab)

Citation

If you use this model, please cite:

Debojit Choudhury, Course Review Sentiment Classifier (2025), Hugging Face. https://huggingface.co/debojit01/course-review-sentiment

debojit01/course-review-sentiment

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