Meeting 1
Welcome to the course! This session introduces you to natural language processing as a subfield of computer science, and to written language as a type of data. It presents the course logistics and helps you get started with coding in PyTorch. At the end of the session, we will implement our first neural model.
Schedule
The meeting will take place on 2025-09-03, 18:00–20:00. The Zoom link has been sent via the course mailing list, so please check your LiU email.
| Time | Title | Materials |
|---|---|---|
| 18:00–18:15 | Welcome to the course! | check-in form |
| 18:15–18:30 | Introduction to natural language processing | slides |
| 18:30–18:45 | Course overview | slides |
| 18:45–19:00 | Course logistics | slides |
| 19:00–19:15 | Break | |
| 19:15–19:30 | Statistical bigram model | notebook |
| 19:30–19:45 | Linear layers | slides |
| 19:45–20:00 | Neural bigram model | notebook |
Additional materials
- Detailed information about the course logistics is available in the Logistics section
- Notebook: Basic text processing
- Notebook: Introduction to PyTorch