Week 8: Welcome and checklist
Content this Week
This week we will focus on lexical semantics – the problem of representing words, whether in a “sparse” way (such as long vectors with many zeros) or in a “dense” way (such as word embeddings). We will also discuss a useful resource in NLP – WordNet, which categorises words and relations between them. You can find the slides here:
- Lecture 1 [pdf] Reading: JM3 6.0-1 (*), 23.0-2 (*). 23.3-4.
- Lecture 2 [pdf] Reading: JM3 6.2-7 (*)
- Lecture 3 [pdf] Reading: JM3 6.8 (*), 6.10 (*)
Discussion / Tutorial 3 Questions
This week's discussion sessions will be based on questions from previous years' exams. There are three questions, one about parsing with CKY, one about estimating a PCFG and one about transition-based parsing. You can find the questions here: [pdf]
Assignment 2: tasks
The assignment has been released. As before, we will also schedule extra help hours for the assignment. More details will be given next week.
- Assignment 2 (slot labeling):
- The tasks for assignment 2 are now available [pdf].
- The code and data are also available [zip].
- You can find your group for the assignment here [txt] (students working alone have not been listed). Please contact your partner (if any) as soon as possible to start working together on the assignment. To do so, you can simply email UUN@sms.ed.ac.uk (your partner's UUN is listed in both the .txt and .cvs files).
- Write your answers on the submission template [tex] [docx], compile a pdf and upload it on Gradescope by November 22nd at noon.
Week 8 checklist
- By Tuesday at 17:00: complete the coursework 2 pairing form.
- As soon as possible after partners are allocated: contact your assignment partner so you can prepare for the assignment, especially if you want to work on the lab together in preparation.
- Complete this week's quizzes.
- Attend the discussion group.
- From Thursday: carefully review Assignment 2.
- By the end of the week – work through all lectures.
Enjoy your week of learning!