This is the page of the course Natural Language Models and Interfaces (or Natuurlijke Taalmodellen en Interfaces in Dutch) offered at the University of Amsterdam

Course coordinator: Wilker Aziz

Quizzes

Sometimes we make use of anonymous quizzes (through Google forms) to make the lectures more interactive.

• Week 1-a
  • Introduction
  • Sequential prediction
  • Sequence segmentation
  • Sequence labelling
  • Translation
• Week 1-b
  • Bernoulli distribution
  • Categorical distribution
  • MLE
• Week 2-ab
  • Random words
  • Random sentences
  • MLE for unigram LMs
  • Markov models and n-gram LMs
  • MLE for bigram LMs
• Week 3-a and 3-b
  • PGMs - Conditional independence
  • PGMs - Tabular vs Inferred

Illustrations

• Sequence to sequence — animation from Google’s seq2seq framework