"DL in NLP" by DeepPavlov. Spring 2020

The course is held in Russian. Main platform is this Telegram channel. Lead by Alex Sorokin (@alexeysorokin89) & Vasiliy Konovalov (@letmypeoplego), both affiliated with MIPT. Supported by OpenDataScience, unoffical discussions are held in the #class_cs224n Slack channel.

Main links

• official course repository
• cs224n lectures 2019, playlist
• cs224n lecture notes
• Lectures and seminars by DeepPavlov, playlist :ru:
• Telegram channel "DL in NLP Spring 2020" :ru:
• DeepPavlov forum :ru:
• Task grading FAQ :ru:
• A list of useful resources from spring 2019 course session

Week 1. Word Vector Representations

1. Lectures:

   • Word Vector Representations (word2vec)
   • Word Vectors and Word Senses (0:00-38:40, 58:00-1:20:00)
   • cs231n lecture
   • cs224n lecture notes
   • FastText paper
   • GloVe paper
   • cs224n lecture on GloVe by Richard Socher (2nd author)
   • a lecture on FastText by Facebook
   • A particuliarly good tutorial on word2vec by Chris McCormick: part1, part2

2. Quiz 1 due on Feb 10th, 9am Moscow time.

3. Quiz 2 due on Feb 17th, 9am Moscow time.

4. ** Assignment 1.** Github Classroom invitation link. Due on Feb 18th, 00:00 MST.

5. Assignment 2. Studying word embeddings and implemeting word2vec. Github Classroom invitation link. Due on March 20th (extended), 23:59 Moscow time.

Weeks 2-4. Basics of neural networks

1. Materials:

   • cs231n lecture
   • cs231n lecture notes: part 1 and part 2

2. Quiz 3 due on Feb 24th, 9am Moscow time.

3. Quiz 4 due on March 2nd, 9am Moscow time.

Week 5. RNNs and language models

1. Materials:

   • cs231n lecture 6
   • cs231n lecture 7
   • cs231n lecture notes
   • lecture on ngram models :ru:
   • "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks", a post by A. Karpathy
   • "Understanding LSTM Networks", a post by Christopher Olah
   • On gradients in RNNs, a paper

2. Quiz 5 due on March 9th, 9am Moscow time.

3. Quiz 6 due on March 17th, 10am Moscow time.

Now that the official course repo is constantly updated, better to follow that one.