YSDA Natural Language Processing course

• Lecture and seminar materials for each week are in ./week* folders
• Create cloud jupyter session from this repo -
• Telegram chat room (russian).
• YSDA homework deadlines are listed in Anytask course page.
• Any technical issues, ideas, bugs in course materials, contribution ideas - add an issue
• Installing libraries and troubleshooting: this thread.

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

Contributors & course staff

Course materials and teaching performed by

• Elena Voita - course admin, lectures, seminars, homeworks
• Boris Kovarsky - lectures, seminars, homeworks
• Sergey Gubanov - lectures, seminars, homeworks
• Just Heuristic - lectures, seminars, homeworks
• David Talbot - lectures, seminars, homeworks