FNLP: Week 1
Tasks
Your major tasks and deadlines this week are:
- Attend lectures 1, 2, and 3.
- Attempt Quiz 1 (via Learn) once you have familiarized with the lecture content.
- Read the readings for this week.
- Get started on Lab 0. This lab is for practicing Python, and will help you with the assignments.
- Check that you have been assigned a tutorial or lab group that suits you; you can change groups on MyEd.
Lectures
| No | Date | Title |
| 1 | January 13 | Introduction [lecture] |
| 2 | January 14 | Why is NLP hard? Variability, ambiguity, sparsity and other factors [lecture] |
| 3 | January 16 | Words as data: corpora statistics and word classes [lecture] [quiz] |
Readings
Readings come in two flavours, required and recommend.
| Jusafsky and Martin, 3rd edition | Chapter 2, Sections 2.1-2.2, 2.5, 2.7-2.8 | required |
| Julia Hirschberg and Chris Manning | Advances in Natural Language Processing | recommended |
Labs
You should independently complete Lab 0, in which you'll practice skills required for later labs and coursework.
- Instructions: Lab 0
- Lab materials as gzipped tar file: lab0.tar.gz
Tutorial (week 2)
The first tutorial sessions will be held in week 2. Please complete the tutorial sheet before your timetabled meeting!
License
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