INF1-CG: Week 7
Tasks
Your major tasks and deadlines this week are:
- Do Quiz 3, which is due on Monday 2 March at 5pm.
- Assignment 1 has been released and is due on 23 March at 5pm.
- Attend lectures 18, 19, and 20.
- Attend your tutorial group.
- Attend one of the drop-in labs.
- Read the readings for this week.
Lectures
| No | Date | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 18 | 03 Mar | Learning the Past Tense: Background |
| 19 | 05 Mar | Neural Network Model of the Past Tense: Paper and model walkthrough (notes and videos forthcoming) |
| 20 | 06 Mar | Vector semantics (note: these notes are a bit nonlinear, because i wrote on the pages in various orderings during the lecture. for a coherent walkthrough, please see the lecture recording.) |
All lectures will be livestreamed and recorded on Echo Video. You may have to log on through Learn before this link works.
Readings
The links below direct you to the University Library or to Piazza. You will need to log on to access the full text.
Readings come in two flavours: recommended and suggested.
| Rumelhart & McClelland 1986 | Rumelhart, D. E., & McClelland, J. L. (1993). On learning the past tenses of English verbs. Parallel Distributed Processing, volume 2. | Recommended (for Assignment 1) |
| Jurafsky & Martin 2019 | Vector Semantics and Embeddings. Speech and Language Processing. (textbook) Daniel Jurafsky & James H. Martin. 2019. | Recommended |
Assignments
To access the assignments, please login in through Learn, and then go the link “Notable LTI 1.3”.
Quizzes
To access the quizzes, please login in through Learn, and then go the link “Gradescope”.
Labs
Please attend one of the drop-in lab sessions this week. The labs are designed to help with the assignments, and you can ask the lab demonstrator if anything is unclear with Assignment 1.
License
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