FNLP: Week 1
Tasks
Your major tasks and deadlines this week are:
- Attend lectures 1, 2, and 3.
- Check that you have been assigned a tutorial or lab group that suits you; you can change groups on MyEd.
- Read the readings for this week.
- Get started on Lab 0. This lab is for practicing Python, and will help you with the assignments.
- Start working on Tutorial 1, which will happen next week.
- Attempt Quiz 1 (via Learn) once you have familiarized with the lecture content.
Lectures
| No | Date | Title |
| 1 | January 14 | Course Overview [lecture] |
| 2 | January 15 | Ambiguity and Probabilistic Models [lecture] |
| 3 | January 17 | Corpora and Experimental Design [lecture] [quiz] |
All lectures will be live streamed and recorded on Echo Video. You may have to log on through Learn before this link works.
Readings
Readings come in two flavours, required and recommend.
Jurafsky and Martin, 2nd edition | Chapter 1 | required |
| Jusafsky and Martin, 3rd edition | Chapter 4, Sections 4.7-4.10 | required |
| Julia Hirschberg and Chris Manning | Advances in Natural Language Processing | recommended |
| Noah Smith, Linguistic Structure Prediction | Appendix B The link to PDF of the book should work when accessing through the university network / VPN) | recommended |
Labs
Attend the lab sessions this week, Lab 0 covers important Python concepts for Assignments 1 and 2.
License
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