Natural Language Understanding and Computational Semantics
- Course ID
- DS-GA 1012
- Term
- Lecture
- Tuesdays, 6:45 PM–8:25 PM, with Sophie.
Room G08, 12 Waverly Place and on Zoom. - Lab
- Wednesdays, 7:10 PM–8:00 PM, with Cara or Jackson.
Room 102, 19 University Place and on Zoom. - Office Hours
- Tuesdays, 4:00 PM–5:00 PM, with Jackson.
Room 507, Arthur L. Carter Hall (10 Washington Place). Wednesdays, 4:00 PM–5:00 PM, with Cara.
Room 307, Arthur L. Carter Hall (10 Washington Place). Fridays, 11:00 AM–12:00 PM, with Sophie.
Room 700, 60 5th Avenue and on Zoom. - Course Website
- https://nyu-dsga1012-s24.github.io/
Course Description
Since at least the proposal of the Turing test, building computational systems that can communicate with humans using natural language has been a central goal for Al research. Understanding real, naturally occurring human language is the key to reaching this goal. This course surveys recent successes in language understanding and prepares students to do original research in this area, culminating with a substantial final project.
My Labs
- 2024 Jan 31
- Sentiment classification using a multi-layer perceptron.
- 2024 Feb 14
- Paper Reading. slides.
- 2024 Feb 28
- Prompting, Testing GPT-4’s color perception. slides.
- 2024 Mar 13
- Linguistics, What Is Language? slides.
- 2024 Apr 3
- Transformers: A Social History. slides.
- 2024 Apr 17
- Practice talks.
- 2024 May 1
- Esoteric Topics in Language Modeling, What Is Understanding? slides.