Date: 19 February 2026
Time: 13:15 – 14:30 (CET)
Location: Online, via Zoom
The purpose of this webinar is to demonstrate how to perform automated text classification using pre-trained, open-source large language models (LLMs). The efficiency that LLMs bring to otherwise laboursome workflows, such as text classification, makes it possible to work with much larger text corpora across all fields of research. The use case will focus on classifying text according to sentiment, but the general workflow is applicable to many other text classification tasks.
In the webinar, we will create a complete workflow which will consist of the following parts:
- Retrieving text data from online sources
- Storing and preparing the data for analysis
- Setting up the LLM text classifier
- Performing the text classification
- Displaying the results (for validation etc.)
The workflow will be set up on the UCloud platform. Using UCloud allows users to create fully reproducible and secure workflows that leverage high performance computing resources which are often necessary to run LLMs locally.