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YSDA course in Natural Language Processing

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YSDA Natural Language Processing course

  • This is the 2020 version. For previous year' course materials, go to this branch
  • Lecture and seminar materials for each week are in ./week* folders, see README.md for materials and instructions
  • YSDA homework deadlines will be listed in Anytask (read more).
  • Any technical issues, ideas, bugs in course materials, contribution ideas - add an issue
  • Installing libraries and troubleshooting: this thread.

Syllabus

  • week01 Word Embeddings

    • Lecture: Word embeddings. Distributional semantics. Count-based (pre-neural) methods. Word2Vec: learn vectors. GloVe: count, then learn. Evaluation: intrinsic vs extrinsic. Analysis and Interpretability. Interactive lecture materials and more.
    • Seminar: Playing with word and sentence embeddings.
  • week02 Text Classification

    • Lecture: Text classification: introduction and datasets. General framework: feature extractor + classifier. Classical approaches: Naive Bayes, MaxEnt (Logistic Regression), SVM. Neural Networks: General View, Convolutional Models, Recurrent Models. Analysis and Interpretability. Interactive lecture materials and more.
    • Seminar: TBA

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