Week 10: Exam revision and guest lecture

Reminders and announcements

• Assignment is due on Tue at noon.
  • No extensions are permitted on this assignment and late submissions are penalized, so plan on finishing early just in case! Also remember: it is much better to submit an incomplete assignment than to submit late or not at all.
  • You can find the instructions for submitting the assignment on Learn under "Assessment" (link).
• Tutorial 4 meets next week. Before you look at the questions, please read below.
  • Each of the two tutorial questions is lightly adapted from a past exam, accounting for this year's content. (These were questions from "Part 2" of those exams, as described in the Revision Guide, see Wed's reading). The questions may span material from the whole semester, and will test your knowledge of multiple topics.
  • If you haven't already, we recommend you read through the exam revision guide before attempting the questions. You can also read the guidance on the first page of the tutorial sheet.
  • We recommend you treat this as a mini practice exam: set a timer for 1 hour from when you first look at the questions (note: the real exam will be 2 hours), and write your answers on paper.
• Student survey: (Same one you got an announcement about on Friday from Toni Noble.) We'd like to hear your feedback! As you know, this year we have entirely revamped ANLP, including lectures, labs, tutorials, and the assignment. We also had a record number of students enrolling in the course. Despite these challenges, we hope that we managed to deliver an enjoyable course. Please consider filling in the survey to let us know what you liked and how we can improve the quality of the course further.
• Practice exam: We will release a full practice exam at the start of Week 11. In the meantime, please read the revision guide (linked below) and use the tutorial questions!

Overview of the week

Welcome to Week 10, the final week of the course! It simultaneously feels like a very long time and just yesterday that we started this course together. I hope you will all take a moment to congratulate yourselves on making it this far, and to reflect on what you have learned so far.

We know that many people are feeling pressured this week with assignments for both this and other classes, so we have no additional examinable material this week. In fact, we won't have a lecture at all on Monday, since the assignment is due on Tuesday. The Wednesday lecture from Sharon will provide some tips on exam preparation. On Friday, we will have our second guest lecture from Edoardo's PhD student Benjamin Minixhofer, who will talk about LLM tokenizers. The contents of the guest lecture will not be examinable. I hope you will enjoy it!

Lectures and reading