• LING 571: Deep Processing Techniques for Natural Language Processing. [Aut '19, Aut '20, Aut '21, Aut '22, Aut '23]
• LING 572: Advanced Statistical Methods for Natural Language Processing. [Win '20]
• LING 574: Deep Learning for NLP [Spr '21, Spr '22, Spr '24]
• LING 575: Topics in Computational Linguistics
  • Analyzing Neural Language Models [Win '20, Spr '21, Spr '22]
  • Compositionality and Generalization [Spr '24]

• Montreean: visualize constituency parse trees vaguely in the style of Piet Mondrian.
• edugrad: a minimal re-implementation of the PyTorch API (dynamic computation graphs + backpropagation), designed for pedagogical purposes
• Tutorial introduction to neural networks: slides and Jupyter notebook, explaining and introducing neural networks. Includes a worked example with quantifiers (in PyTorch) and additional practical advice. (Largely supersedes the tutorial linked below, though that one can still be useful for understanding TensorFlow's estimators interfactor.)
• Decision and Game Theory for AI: lecture notes (in the form of Jupyter Notebooks) for a mini-course on decision and game theory for undergraduates in AI. Includes simple implementations of things like CDT/EDT, replicator dynamic, reinforcement learning in signaling games.
• Generate Dot Arrays for Psycholinguistic Experiments: Python script for generating colored dot arrays, including the four stimulus type from Pietroski et al 2009, "Psychosemantics of `most'".
• Joyce's Argument for Probabilism: this is a Mathematica notebook that carries out the construction in the proof of Joyce's most general argument for probabilism from his 2009 "Accuracy and Coherence: Prospects for an Alethic Epistemology of Partial Belief"

You can reach me via snail or electronic mail:

Guggenheim Hall, room 415K
Seattle, Washington 98195

shanest AT uw DOT edu