Houjun Liu

NLP Index

Learning Goals

  1. Effective modern methods for deep NLP
    • Word vectors, FFNN, recurrent networks, attention
    • Transformers, encoder/decoder, pre-training, post-training (RLHF, SFT), adaptation, interoperability, agents
  2. Big picture in HUMAN LANGUAGES
    • why are they hard
    • why using computers to deal with them are doubly hard
  3. Making stuff (in PyTorch)
    • word meaning
    • dependency parsing
    • machine translation
    • QA

Lectures