Natural Language Processing - A Machine Learning Perspective

WestlakeNLP · 2022

Last updated on Feb 8, 2023

Natural Language Processing

Updates

Course Description

This online course is based on the recently released textbook, Natural Language Processing - a Machine Learning Perspective, written by Dr. Yue Zhang & Dr. Zhiyang Teng and published by Cambridge University Press. The course is taught in Chinese, English version of the class will be updated in future releases. Professor Yue Zhang is the principal inverstigator of the Text Intelligence Lab, Westlake University, and a well-known NLP researcher. You may find more detailed information at his personal page or Google Scholar. Course updates are in progress on our bilibili account, WestlakeNLP, do not hesitate to follow us! In this page, we will keep updating course slides.

Instructors

Zhang Yue

Tenured Full Professor

Teaching Assistants

Chen Yulong

Fu Qiankun

Liu Hanmeng

Liu Pai

Materials

Book

Natural Language Processing - A Machine Learning Perspective

Additional Course Materials

  • Other recomend textbooks and reading materials (update continuing).
  • Material #1: Speech and Language processing

Lectures

You can download the lectures here. We will try to upload lectures prior to their corresponding classes.

DateTitleMaterial
09/08/2021 WednesdayCourse Intro[notes] [video] [slides]
09/08/2021 WednesdayContent[notes] [video] [slides]
09/10/2021 FridayHistory of Natural Language Processing[notes] [video] [slides]
09/10/2021 FridayCounting relative frequencies[video] [slides]
10/13/2021 WednesdayFeature Vectors[video] [slides]
11/05/2021 FridayDiscriminative Linear Classifiers[video] [slides]
12/06/2021 MondayUsing Information Theory[video] [slides]
12/20/2021 MondayHidden Variables[video] [slides]
01/07/2022 FridayGenerative Sequence Labeling[video] [slides]
01/21/2022 FridayDiscriminative Sequence Labeling[video] [slides]
03/07/2022 MondaySequence Segmentation[video] [slides]
03/30/2022 WednesdayNeural Networks[video] [slides]
03/30/2022 WednesdayNeural Networks[video] [slides]
04/22/2022 FridayPredicting Tree Structures[video] [slides]
05/20/2022 FridayTransition-based method for structure prediction[video] [slides]
08/15/2022 MondayRepresentation learning[video] [slides]
09/05/2022 MondayNeural structured prediction[video] [slides]
09/05/2022 MondayWorking with two texts[video] [slides]
12/05/2022 MondayPre-training and Transfer Learning[video]
Lectures List

Assignments

You can download the assignments here. Also check out each assignment page for any additional info.

Late Policy

Natural Language Processing