# Text-Classification Pipeline - Newbie question

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**Created:** [August 22, 2025, 7:06pm UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/text-classification-pipeline-newbie-question/167640 "2025-08-22T19:06:44Z")\
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Hi Markus,

`“sentiment-analysis”` is the task specifying what you want a large language model to perform on the text. Sentiment analysis practically changes the model’s head to a classifier, which you can see here:

> <https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/7d88f57fc6892b9b3d0092c53e27ae033f1bebc8/src/transformers/pipelines/ __init__.py#L154-L159>

This pipeline is pre-configured, the settings can be found below in the same file defined here:

> <https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/7d88f57fc6892b9b3d0092c53e27ae033f1bebc8/src/transformers/pipelines/ __init__.py#L193-L205>

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