This course covers several important machine learning algorithms for natural language processing including decision tree, kNN, Naive Bayes, support vector machine, maximum entropy / multinomial logistic regression, conditional random fields, and neural networks. Students implement many of the algorithms and apply these algorithms to some NLP tasks.
| Days | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Tuesday and Thursday | 1:00 - 2:20 PM | ECE 045 |
| Role | Name | Office | Office Hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| Instructor | Shane Steinert-Threlkeld | Guggenheim 418-D (and Zoom) | Tuesday, 2:30 - 4:30 PM |
| Teaching Assistant | Yuanhe Tian | Guggenheim 417 (the Treehouse) | Wednesday, 3 - 4 PM Friday 10 - 11 AM |
There is no required textbook. Instead, the course readings will be drawn from contemporary articles and tutorials available online. Some material will be pulled from the following books, which will be referenced by their parenthecized names:
N.B.: All homework grading will take place on the patas cluster using Condor, so your code must run there. I strongly encourage you to ensure you have an account set up by the time of the first course meeting.
Unless explicitly mentioned below, the shared policies of the LING 57x course series apply to this course. Please read those policies for more information.
As per the policy above, all communication outside of the classroom should take place on Canvas. You can expect responses from teaching staff within 48 hours, but only during normal business hours, and excluding weekends.
N.B.: while CLMS students have a private Slack channel, I strongly encourage questions concerning course content and assignments to be posted to the Canvas discussion board, for two reasons. (i) Teaching staff will not look at Canvas, so misinformation can spread. (ii) Not every student in the course is in the CLMS program, but they deserve to be included in course discussions and likely have many of the same questions.
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