An Introduction to Natural Language Processing
Ever wondered how Siri can have conversations with you or how new AI systems like GPT-3 can generate coherent news articles? While we cannot say that any system has passed the Turing test, advances in natural language processing (NLP) over the last decade - fueled by the rise of deep learning - have brought us closer to AI systems that can understand and generate text. From virtual assistants and chatbots to captioning systems and translators, NLP is now all around us. This workshop gives an overview of what NLP is, how we can represent language in a computer, which machine learning algorithms are commonly used in NLP, which tasks NLP has been successful at, as well as which ones still require a lot of work. The workshop will conclude with an interactive coding session, where audience members get to build their own NLP system for a specific task. No previous experience required!
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