diff --git a/.github/workflows/CI-responsibleai-text-pytest.yml b/.github/workflows/CI-responsibleai-text-pytest.yml
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+name: CI ResponsibleAI-Text pytest
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches: [main]
+  pull_request:
+    branches: [main]
+    paths:
+      - "responsibleai_text/**"
+      - ".github/workflows/CI-responsibleai-text-pytest.yml"
+
+jobs:
+  ci-python:
+    strategy:
+      matrix:
+        packageDirectory: ["responsibleai_text"]
+        operatingSystem: [ubuntu-latest, macos-latest, windows-latest]
+        pythonVersion: ["3.7", "3.8", "3.9", "3.10"]
+        # TODO: re-add macos-latest once build timeout issues are resolved
+        exclude:
+          - packageDirectory: "responsibleai_text"
+            operatingSystem: macos-latest
+            pythonVersion: "3.7"
+          - packageDirectory: "responsibleai_text"
+            operatingSystem: macos-latest
+            pythonVersion: "3.8"
+          - packageDirectory: "responsibleai_text"
+            operatingSystem: macos-latest
+            pythonVersion: "3.9"
+          - packageDirectory: "responsibleai_text"
+            operatingSystem: macos-latest
+            pythonVersion: "3.10"
+    runs-on: ${{ matrix.operatingSystem }}
+
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+
+      - uses: conda-incubator/setup-miniconda@v2
+        with:
+          auto-update-conda: true
+          python-version: ${{ matrix.pythonVersion }}
+
+      - if: ${{ matrix.operatingSystem != 'macos-latest' }}
+        name: Install pytorch on non-MacOS
+        shell: bash -l {0}
+        run: |
+          conda install --yes --quiet pytorch torchvision captum cpuonly -c pytorch
+
+      - if: ${{ matrix.operatingSystem == 'macos-latest' }}
+        name: Install Anaconda packages on MacOS, which should not include cpuonly according to official docs
+        shell: bash -l {0}
+        run: |
+          conda install --yes --quiet pytorch torchvision captum -c pytorch
+
+      - name: Setup tools
+        shell: bash -l {0}
+        run: |
+          python -m pip install --upgrade pip
+          pip install --upgrade setuptools
+          pip install --upgrade "pip-tools<=6.13.0"
+
+      - name: Install dependencies
+        shell: bash -l {0}
+        run: |
+          pip install -r requirements-dev.txt
+          pip install .
+        working-directory: ${{ matrix.packageDirectory }}
+
+      - name: Setup spacy
+        shell: bash -l {0}
+        run: |
+          python -m spacy download en_core_web_sm
+
+      - name: Install package
+        shell: bash -l {0}
+        run: |
+          pip install -v -e .
+        working-directory: ${{ matrix.packageDirectory }}
+
+      - name: Run tests
+        shell: bash -l {0}
+        run: |
+          pytest -s -v --durations=10 --doctest-modules --junitxml=junit/test-results.xml --cov=${{ matrix.packageDirectory }} --cov-report=xml --cov-report=html
+        working-directory: ${{ matrix.packageDirectory }}
+
+      - name: Upload code coverage results
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
+        with:
+          name: ${{ matrix.packageDirectory }}-code-coverage-results
+          path: ${{ matrix.packageDirectory }}/htmlcov
+        # Use always() to always run this step to publish test results when there are test failures
+        if: ${{ always() }}
+
+      - if: ${{ (matrix.operatingSystem == 'windows-latest') && (matrix.pythonVersion == '3.8') }}
+        name: Upload to codecov
+        id: codecovupload1
+        uses: codecov/codecov-action@v3
+        with:
+          token: ${{ secrets.CODECOV_TOKEN }}
+          directory: ${{ matrix.packageDirectory }}
+          env_vars: OS,PYTHON
+          fail_ci_if_error: false
+          files: ./${{ matrix.packageDirectory }}/coverage.xml
+          flags: unittests
+          name: codecov-umbrella
+          verbose: true
+
+      - if: ${{ (steps.codecovupload1.outcome == 'failure') && (matrix.pythonVersion == '3.8') && (matrix.operatingSystem == 'windows-latest') }}
+        name: Retry upload to codecov
+        id: codecovupload2
+        uses: codecov/codecov-action@v3
+        with:
+          token: ${{ secrets.CODECOV_TOKEN }}
+          directory: ${{ matrix.packageDirectory }}
+          env_vars: OS,PYTHON
+          fail_ci_if_error: false
+          files: ./${{ matrix.packageDirectory }}/coverage.xml
+          flags: unittests
+          name: codecov-umbrella
+          verbose: true
+
+      - name: Set codecov status
+        if: ${{ (matrix.pythonVersion == '3.8') && (matrix.operatingSystem == 'windows-latest') }}
+        shell: bash
+        run: |
+          if ${{ (steps.codecovupload1.outcome == 'success') || (steps.codecovupload2.outcome == 'success') }} ; then
+            echo fine
+          else
+            exit 1
+          fi
diff --git a/responsibleai_text/README.md b/responsibleai_text/README.md
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+# Responsible AI Text SDK for Python
+
+### This package has been tested with Python 3.6, 3.7, 3.8 and 3.9
+
+The Responsible AI Text sdk enables users to analyze their machine learning models for text data in one API. Users will be able to analyze errors, explain the most important features, and understand their data using a single API.
+
+Highlights of the package include:
+
+- `explainer.add()` explains the model
+
+### Supported scenarios, models and datasets
+
+The Responsible AI Text SDK supports multiclass classification and question answering models on text data currently.
+
+The open source code for the visualization dashboard can be found here:
+https://github.com/microsoft/responsible-ai-toolbox
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diff --git a/responsibleai_text/requirements-dev.txt b/responsibleai_text/requirements-dev.txt
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+pytest==7.0.1
+pytest-cov
+pytest-mock==3.6.1
+
+requirements-parser==0.2.0
+
+transformers
+datasets
+tensorflow<2.11.0
+opencv-python
+
+fastai
+mlflow
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