Practical overview
When it fits
Use it when you want a research starting point for binary French review classification, with dataset splits and multiple model comparisons in one repository.
Who it is for
- Researchers comparing French sentiment-classification approaches.
- Developers exploring a labeled French review dataset and notebook-based model training.
- Readers studying model performance on movie reviews and selected cross-domain review data.
Documented uses
- Explore positive and negative labels in a large French movie-review dataset.
- Train and compare CamemBERT, TF-IDF, fastText, CNN and RNN approaches.
- Review reported model results on Allociné reviews and selected Amazon review categories.
Requirements & limits
The repository is public and specifies an MIT license.
- The dataset contains 200,000 positive and negative Allociné reviews, split into 160,000 training, 20,000 validation and 20,000 test examples.
- Dataset files are described as JSONL and pickle.
- The main BERT-based approach uses CamemBERT and Transformers.
- Reported full-dataset results include 97.44% test accuracy and 97.34% test F1 for CamemBERT.
- The README also reports inference results on French Amazon books, DVD and music review sets without additional training.
Check current requirements in the official documentation. Source-based guidance does not mean OpenViST has run or independently tested this project.
Prepare the repository and open the BERT notebook
Install the project dependencies, extract the review dataset and open the documented BERT notebook.
Before you start
- Git
- Pipenv
- Jupyter Notebook
Steps
Clone the repository and change into its directory.
Run
pipenv installto install the project dependencies.Extract the dataset from
allocine_dataset/data.tar.bz2.Run
pipenv shell, then open03_bert.ipynbwith Jupyter Notebook.
Expected outcome
The documented environment is prepared and the BERT notebook is opened for experimentation.
Guide limitations
- The instructions document setup and notebook opening, not the outcome of executing training.
- The repository points readers needing inference to a separate Hugging Face integration section.
Sources & review
Source record details
- Source availability
- Active
- Sources checked
- 17 October 2026
- Original website title
- TheophileBlard/french-sentiment-analysis-with-bert · Official homepage title · retained in its source language

