I am teaching the basics of natural language processing in one intense week.
The students are talented software engineers and coding mathematicians who know general machine learning.
The goal is just enough theory, literacy and hands-on experience to attack natural language problems at work.
Lectures: What is NLP, what is the motivation, why is it hard? Non-English and multilingual. Terminology.
Lab: Set up your environment, build a simple but effective spelling corrector
Lectures: Motivation for deep learning, word vectors, doc, query and subword vectors.
Lab: Unsupervised and supervised learning on text with fastText
Lectures: [coming soon]
Lab: [coming soon]
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