COMPSCI 4NL3 - Natural Language Processing

3 unit(s)

Overview of natural language processing with a focus on recent developments: Basics of data processing and machine learning in the context of NLP, text classification and sequence labeling, vector semantics, embeddings, language modeling, translation, question answering, parsing, dialogue and conversational systems, discourse processing, and large language models. Practices and developments will be discussed with practical exercises focusing more heavily on recent neural network approaches.
Prerequisite(s): One of COMPSCI 2C03 or SFWRENG 2C03 or MECHTRON 2MD3; one of MATH 1B03 or MATH 1ZC3; one of STATS 2D03 or 3Y03.
Offered on an irregular basis.