YSDA Natural Language Processing course

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Syllabus

week01 Embeddings
- Lecture: Word embeddings. Distributional semantics, LSA, Word2Vec, GloVe. Why and when we need them.
- Seminar: Playing with word and sentence embeddings.
week02 Text classification
- Lecture: Text classification. Classical approaches for text representation: BOW, TF-IDF. Neural approaches: embeddings, convolutions, RNNs
- Seminar: Salary prediction with convolutional neural networks; explaining network predictions.
week03 Language Models
- Lecture: Language models: N-gram and neural approaches; visualizing trained models
- Seminar: Generating ArXiv papers with language models
week04 Seq2seq/Attention
- Lecture: Seq2seq: encoder-decoder framework. Attention: Bahdanau model. Self-attention, Transformer. Pointer networks. Attention for analysis.
- Seminar: Machine translation of hotel and hostel descriptions
week05 Structured Learning
- Lecture: Structured Learning: structured perceptron, structured prediction, dynamic oracles, RL basics.
- Seminar: POS tagging
week06 Expectation-Maximization
- Lecture: Expectation-Maximization and Word Alignment Models
- Seminar: Implementing expectation maximizaiton
week07 Machine translation
- Lecture: Machine Translation: a review of the key ideas from PBMT, the application specific ideas that have developed in NMT over the past 3 years and some of the open problems in this area.
- Seminar: presentations by students

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