Natural Language Understanding course covers propelled techniques in characteristic dialect understanding. At its centre are techniques for learning etymological portrayals, at all levels of investigation: dictionary, sentence structure, semantics, and talk.

The concentration of the course will be on profound learning strategies for learning etymological portrayals, however standard discriminative and unsupervised techniques will likewise be presented. It will cover word embeddings, bolster forward neural systems, intermittent neural systems, recursive neural systems, and convolutional neural systems.

Notwithstanding the applicable structures and learning calculations, it will acquaint profound learning approaches with a scope of characteristic dialect understanding assignments, including dialect demonstrating, grammatical feature labeling, parsing, address replying, semantic part naming, semantic organization, estimation examination, and talk rationality.

Mailing List and Discussion Forum

Declarations with respect to the course will be presented on the course mailing list. All understudies taking the course are consequently subscribed to this rundown. Past postings can be gotten to utilizing the mailing list document.

Virtual Learning Environment

The course will utilize Blackboard Learn for different exercises. Specifically the tests, assignments, and address recordings can be found there. In the event that you are selected in the course, you will naturally have entry to the Learn page of the course.

Time and Place
Lectures
Tuesdays
11:10-12:00
Medical School, Meadows Lecture Theatre, Room G.07, Doorway 4

Fridays
11:10-12:00
7 Bristo Square, Lecture Theatre 1

Lectures




Teacing Staff

Lecturers
Frank Keller; office: Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Room 3.28; email: keller@inf.ed.ac.uk; phone: 504407.
Mirella Lapata; office: Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Room 4.16; email: mlap@inf.ed.ac.uk; phone: 504416.

Teaching Assistants
Stefanos Angelidis; office: Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Room 3.39; email: s1258635@sms.ed.ac.uk; phone: 504414.
Philip Gorinski; office: Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Room 3.39; email: s0897311@sms.ed.ac.uk; phone: 504414.

Contact:

School of Informatics
Informatics Forum,
10 Crichton Street,
Edinburgh, EH8 9AB,
Scotland, UK
Tel: +44 131 651 5661,
Fax: +44 131 651 1426,
E-mail: school-office@inf.ed.ac.uk