This is a lecture note for the course DS-GA 3001 at the Center for Data Science, New York University in Fall 2015. The instructor is Kyunghyun Cho, and the syllabus can be found at http://www.kyunghyuncho.me/home/courses/ds-ga-3001-fall-2015.

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@techreport{cho2015note,
  title={Natural Language Understanding with Distributed Representation},
  author={Kyunghyun Cho},
  year={2015},
  institution={New York University},
  type={\notype},
  note={Lecture Note for DS-GA 3001}
}