Week 3: Materials and checklist
Welcome to the start of our third week! We are still seeing lots of good activity on Piazza (thanks especially to those of you who have answered other students' questions!), and it's great to see you all in the live sessions and labs. I hope you are all getting to know some other students in the class by now and, if you are new to Edinburgh, also getting to know the city a little bit.
Week 3 Materials
Lecture Materials
- Slides:
- Readings:
- Basic Probability Theory tutorial
- JM3 3.0-3.2 (*), 3.3, 3.4-3.5 (*)
- JM3 7.0-7.1 (*), 7.3 (*), 7.5 (*)
- Optional: Formal Aspects of Language Modeling §2.0-2.4 (ETH Zurich course)
- Week 3 quizzes will be released on Gradescope after each lecture.
Additional Materials
- Week 3 Lab: Working with probability distributions [pdf]
- Next week's tutorial (discussion) questions: [pdf] released on Thursday. These are the questions that will be discussed in the first tutorial group meetings next week (Week 4). You'll be expected to participate in the discussion, so you should take a quick look at the questions in advance. If you have done the reading for this week, it should only take you 15 minutes or so to prepare for your group, so don't spend ages. But you will need to do the reading!
- Assignment 1 (language modelling):
- The tasks for assignment 1 are now available [pdf].
- You can find your group for the assignment here [csv] [txt] (including students working alone). 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 October 18th at noon.
Tutorial (discussion) groups
By this time, you should have received your group assignment for the ANLP tutorials, and it should show up in your timetable. If you have a regular conflict with the time of your tutorial (or lab) group, you may request a switch using this link.
The first group meetings will take place next week but will discuss questions related to this week's content (posted below under 'Additional Materials'). Tutorial groups will be based around the discussion of open-ended questions. This is in contrast to lecture quizzes, which cover technical questions with a single answer, which can be automatically checked. Tutorials and quizzes reflect the two kinds of questions you will encounter in the final exam, so it is important to engage with them to prepare yourself properly. If you have questions about the more technical content, please continue to make use of Piazza, the live lecture session, and/or drop-in help hours to ask your questions.
If you registered late and need to catch up:
- Check that you have completed at least steps 3-4 and 9 in the Week 1 checklist.
- At this point, the most important things to catch up on are the two labs and this week's content units, so that you can complete Assignment 1.
Week 3 checklist for all students:
As well as the usual (work through all the units and tutorial exercises, attend timetabled activities), extra reminders for this week are:
- Do by the end of Monday: Complete the Assignment 1 partnering form if you want to work with a partner for the first assignment (which we recommend).
- If you found your own partner, one of you should fill in the form to tell us who the partner is.
- If you want us to assign you a partner, fill in the form to tell us that.
- We assume most students will want to work together in person, but if not you can tell us on the form.
- If you want to work alone, you don't need to fill in the form. However, previous experience suggests that pairs tend to do better on the assignment than individuals.
- After we announce assignment partners: Get in touch with your partner and start working on the assignment.