Instructor: |
TA: ![]() Xi Chen |
Time/Location:
What is this seminar about?
Recent advances in deep learning have led to exciting developments in natural language processing, especially in areas like translation, question answering and information extraction. This seminar will allow students to choose and work on a research project utilizing deep neural networks for NLP. The project can focus on either new theoretical/algorithmic developments for NNs, applying neural network models to solve various NLP tasks, or development of new evaluation frameworks, tasks and metrics.Courses:
Readings:
Some helpful books to read up on background material:Useful web resources:
Funding:
Date | Topic | Pre-class Action items |
Feb 4 | Introduction | Fill out this form |
Feb 6 | Information meeting for all IW students (CS 105, 4:30-5:30pm) | |
Feb 7 | Introduction to PyTorch | |
Feb 11 | Brainstorming project ideas | Project ideas form |
Feb 18 | Project proposal presentations | Presentation in Google slides |
Feb 25 | Project updates | Update Google slides |
Mar 3 | Project updates | Update Google slides |
Mar 8 | Submit checkpoint form | |
Mar 10 | Project updates | Update Google slides |
Mar 17 | No class (Spring recess) | |
Mar 24 | Project updates | Update Google slides |
Mar 31 | Project updates, Attend "How to Give an IW talk" in CS 105 at 4:30pm | Update Google slides |
Apr 7 | Project updates | Update Google slides |
Apr 14 | Project updates, Attend "How to write an IW paper" in CS 105 at 4:30pm | Update Google slides |
Apr 26 | Submit slides for Oral Presentation | |
Apr 28 | In-class oral presentations | |
May 12 | Written final report due |