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194.135 Research topics in natural language processing
This course is in all assigned curricula part of the STEOP.
This course is in at least 1 assigned curriculum part of the STEOP.

2023S, VU, 2.0h, 3.0EC

Properties

  • Semester hours: 2.0
  • Credits: 3.0
  • Type: VU Lecture and Exercise
  • Format: Hybrid

Learning outcomes

After successful completion of the course, students are able to:

- understand and explain the theoretical foundations of modern methods in natural language
processing
- consider, evaluate, and discuss both ML-based and rule-based solutions to a variety of NLP tasks
- consider, evaluate, and discuss the explainability and biases of NLP solutions
- understand and address the challenges of NLP for low-resourced languages

Subject of course

Tentative topics:

- Overview of tasks and methods in NLP
- Distributional models in NLP
- Explainability of NLP models
- Understanding and semantics
- Semantic parsing and representation

Teaching methods

Introductory lectures, individual research work, group discussions

Mode of examination

Immanent

Additional information

Lectures: 24h
Coursework: 35h
Project: 16h

Total: 75h

Lecturers

Institute

Course dates

DayTimeDateLocationDescription
Tue13:00 - 16:0007.03.2023 - 27.06.2023 HD0215Research topics in natural language processing
Research topics in natural language processing - Single appointments
DayDateTimeLocationDescription
Tue07.03.202313:00 - 16:00 HD0215Research topics in natural language processing
Tue21.03.202313:00 - 16:00 HD0215Research topics in natural language processing
Tue18.04.202313:00 - 16:00 HD0215Research topics in natural language processing
Tue02.05.202313:00 - 16:00 HD0215Research topics in natural language processing
Tue16.05.202313:00 - 16:00 HD0215Research topics in natural language processing
Tue13.06.202313:00 - 16:00 HD0215Research topics in natural language processing
Tue27.06.202313:00 - 16:00 HD0215Research topics in natural language processing

Examination modalities

Presentation of individual research outcomes

Course registration

Begin End Deregistration end
20.02.2023 12:00

Curricula

Literature

No lecture notes are available.

Language

English