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+# NLP Lab on text classification
+
+to start : 
+
+* create a virtual environment
+> virtualenv -p python3 nlp-env
+* activate the virtual env
+> source/nlp-env/bin/actiate
+* install the required packages
+> pip install -r requirements.txt
+