Deep Learning for NLP

This course is organised by Phil Blunsom and delivered in partnership with the DeepMind Natural Language Research Group.

Lecturers

• Phil Blunsom (Oxford University and DeepMind)
• Chris Dyer (Carnegie Mellon University and DeepMind)
• Edward Grefenstette (DeepMind)
• Karl Moritz Hermann (DeepMind)
• Andrew Senior (DeepMind)
• Wang Ling (DeepMind)
• Jeremy Appleyard (NVIDIA)

TAs

• Yannis Assael
• Yishu Miao
• Brendan Shillingford
• Jan Buys

Timetable

Practicals

• Group 1 - Monday, 9:00-11:00 (Weeks 2-8), 60.05 Thom Building
• Group 2 - Friday, 16:00-18:00 (Weeks 2-8), Room 379

1. Practical 1: word2vec
2. Practical 2: text classification
3. Practical 3: recurrent neural networks for text classification and language modelling
4. Practical 4: open practical

Acknowledgements

This course would not have been possible without the support of DeepMind, The University of Oxford Department of Computer Science, Nvidia, and the generous donation of GPU resources from Microsoft Azure.