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April 29-30, 2018: Training
April 30-May 2, 2018: Tutorials & Conference
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In-Person Training
Natural language processing with deep learning

Delip Rao (AI Foundation), Brian McMahan (Wells Fargo)
9:00am–5:00pm
Sunday, April 29 through Monday, April 30
Location: Clinton
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Participants should plan to attend both days of this 2-day training course. Platinum and Training passes do not include access to tutorials on Monday.

Delip Rao explores natural language processing with deep learning, walking you through neural network architectures and NLP tasks and teaching you how to apply these architectures for those tasks.

What you'll learn, and how you can apply it

  • Understand basic concepts in natural language processing (NLP) and deep learning as they apply to NLP
  • Learn a hands-on approach to framing a real-world problem to the underlying NLP task and building a solution using deep learning

Prerequisites:

  • A working knowledge of Python and the command line
  • Familiarity with precalc math (multiply matrices, dot products of vectors, etc.) and derivatives of simple functions (If you are new to linear algebra, this video course is handy.)
  • A general understanding of machine learning (setting up experiments, evaluation, etc.) (useful but not required)

Hardware and/or installation requirements:

  • A laptop with the PyTorch environment set up (If you have trouble following the provided instructions or if you find any mistakes, please file an issue here.)

Natural language processing (NLP) involves the application of machine learning and other statistical techniques to derive insights from human language. With large volumes of data exchanged as text (in the form of documents, tweets, email, chat, and so on), NLP techniques are indispensable to modern intelligent applications. The applications range from enterprise to pedestrian.

Delip Rao explores natural language processing with deep learning, walking you through neural network architectures and NLP tasks and teaching you how to apply these architectures for those tasks.

Outline

Day 1

Environment setup and data download

Fundamentals

  • Introduction to supervised learning
  • Introduction to computational graphs
  • Introduction to NLP and NLP tasks

Representations for words: Word embeddings

  • Overview of embeddings
  • Hands-on exercise: Word analogy problems

Deep learning frameworks

  • Static versus dynamic
  • PyTorch basics
  • Hands-on exercise: PyTorch

Feed-forward networks for NLP

  • Multilayer perceptrons
  • Hands-on exercise: Chinese document classification

Modeling subword units with convolutional networks

  • Hands-on exercise: Classifying names to ethnicities


Day 2

Sequence modeling

  • Basics of modeling sequences
  • Representing sequences as tensors

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) to model sequences

  • Basic concepts
  • Hands-on exercise: Language modeling using a character RNN
  • Gated variants (LSTM and GRU)
  • Structural variants (bidirectional, stacked, and tree)

Structured prediction methods

  • Greedy selection
  • Monte Carlo methods
  • Beam search
  • Viterbi decoding
  • Hands-on exercise: Generating sentences from a character RNN

Attention

  • Basic concepts
  • Applications: Context-aware modeling

From sequence models to sequence-to-sequence models

  • Basic ideas
  • Applications: Translation and summarization

Advanced topics

  • Memory networks
  • Convolutions for sequence modeling
  • Transfer learning
  • Multitask learning

DL modeling for common NLP tasks

  • Language modeling
  • POS tagging
  • Chunking
  • NER
  • Parsing
  • Machine translation
  • Summarization
  • Generation

Choose your own adventure

  • Hands-on exercise: Work with an NLP problem end-to-end from a selection of problems

DL for NLP: Best practices

Wrap-up and Q&A

  • When to use deep learning for NLP
  • When not to use deep learning for NLP

About your instructors

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Delip Rao is the vice president of research at the AI Foundation, where he leads speech, language, and vision research efforts for generating and detecting artificial content. Previously, he founded the AI research consulting company Joostware and the Fake News Challenge, an initiative to bring AI researchers across the world together to work on fact checking-related problems, and he was at Google and Twitter. Delip is the author of a recent book on deep learning and natural language processing. His attitude toward production NLP research is shaped by the time he spent at Joostware working for enterprise clients, as the first machine learning researcher on the Twitter antispam team, and as an early researcher at Amazon Alexa.

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Brian McMahan is a data scientist at Wells Fargo, working on projects that apply natural language processing (NLP) to solve real world needs. Recently, he published a book with Delip Rao on PyTorch and NLP. Previously, he was a research engineer at Joostware, a San Francisco-based company specializing in consulting and building intellectual property in NLP and Deep Learning. Brian is wrapping up his PhD in computer science from Rutgers University, where his research focuses on Bayesian and deep learning models for grounding perceptual language in the visual domain. Brian has also conducted research in reinforcement learning and various aspects of dialogue systems.

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joe mcduffey | CEO
05/03/2018 11:12am EDT

Can I get the slides for the 2 day course?

Rovina Coutinho | BUSINESS ANALYST
05/03/2018 5:46am EDT

It would have been helpful if the session listed accurate pre-requisites. Though I had linear algebra and python background, I was not able to follow this session as it was more advanced than I expected.