NLP Class

07/09: Why is Natural Language Processing important?

07/14: Language Modeling with N-grams

• cs231n Python/Numpy Tutorial
• Probability Review
• (Optional) SLP 3 - N-gram Language Models

07/16: Text Classification with Naive Bayes

• (Optional) SLP 3 - Naive Bayes

07/21: Word Embeddings

• Vectors, what even are they?
• (Optional) word2vec Paper
• (Optional) The Illustrated word2vec

07/23: Text Classification with CNNs

• cs231n CNN Explainer
• CNNs for Sentence Classification
• Colab Notebook

07/28: Text Generation with RNNs (part 1)

• The Unreasonable Effectiveness of RNNs

07/31: Text Generation with RNNs (part 2)

• Colab Notebook

08/04: Speech Synthesis with WaveNets

• WaveNet Blogpost
• WaveNet Explainer Video
• (Optional) WaveNet Paper

08/06: Natural Language Understanding with BERT

• The Illustrated BERT
• (Optional) BERT Paper
• (Optional - Advanced) The Annotated Transformer

08/11: Language Modeling with GPT

• GPT-2 Blogpost
• GPT-2 1.5B Release Blogpost
• The Illustrated GPT-2
• Write with Transformer
• (Optional) GPT-2 Paper