A low-resource language project using data augmentation and prompt tuning
# Amharic Sentiment Analysis with Prompt Tuning
Low-resource binary sentiment classification for Amharic tweets using data augmentation and PEFT (Prompt Tuning).
## Current Status (Initial Version)
- Macro F1: ~0.70–0.75 (after basic augmentation)
- Trainable parameters: ~0.03%
- Techniques: random word swap augmentation + prompt tuning
## Planned Improvements
- Class weighting
- Back-translation augmentation (NLLB)
- Switch to LoRA
- Better hyperparameter tuning
- Gradio demo
## How to run
1. Open in Colab:
2. Change runtime to T4 GPU
3. Run all cells