How to generate realistic yelp restaurant reviews with Keras

TL; DR

You will be able to build a model to generate 5-star Yelp reviews like those.

Samples of generated review text (unmodified)

<SOR>I had the steak, mussels with a side of chicken parmesan. All were very good. We will be back.<EOR>
<SOR>The food, service, atmosphere, and service are excellent. I would recommend it to all my friends<EOR>
<SOR>Good atmosphere, amazing food and great service.Service is also pretty good. Give them a try!<EOR>

How to Run

Require Python 3.5+ and Jupyter notebook installed

Clone or download this repo

git clone https://github.com/Tony607/Yelp_review_generation

Install required libraries

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

If you are only interested in playing with the trained model to generation reviews. Download the trained model weight from the releases, pre-trained.hdf5. Put it to the root of the project directory.

Start to generate reviews

In the project start a command line run

jupyter notebook

In the opened browser window open

notebooks/3_Generate_Review.ipynb

Optionally if you want to learn about data preparation and model training. Continue on with my write up.

Happy coding! Leave a comment if you have any question.