CS224n: Natural Language Processing with Deep Learning

A distilled compilation of my notes for Stanford's CS224n: Natural Language Processing with Deep Learning.
Natural language processing (NLP) is a crucial part of artificial intelligence (AI), modeling how people share information. In recent years, deep learning approaches have obtained very high performance on many NLP tasks. In this course, students gain a thorough introduction to cutting-edge neural networks for NLP.
Notes
Intro
NLP overview; historical context; course logistics
Course Info
Course description:
• Natural language processing (NLP) or computational linguistics is one of the most important technologies of the information age. Applications of NLP are everywhere because people communicate almost everything in language: web search, advertising, emails, customer service, language translation, virtual agents, medical reports, etc.
• In recent years, deep learning (or neural network) approaches have obtained very high performance across many different NLP tasks, using single end-to-end neural models that do not require traditional, task-specific feature engineering.
• In this course, students will gain a thorough introduction to cutting-edge research in Deep Learning for NLP. Through lectures, assignments and a final project, students will learn the necessary skills to design, implement, and understand their own neural network models. As piloted last year, CS224n will be taught using PyTorch this year.
Credits
The in-line diagrams are taken from the CS224n lecture slides, unless specified otherwise.
Citation
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@misc{Chadha2020DistilledNotesCS231n,
author        = {Chadha, Aman},
title         = {Distilled Notes for Stanford CS224n: Natural Language Processing with Deep Learning},
howpublished  = {\url{https://www.aman.ai}},
year          = {2020},
note          = {Accessed: 2020-07-01},
url           = {www.aman.ai}
}


A. Chadha, Distilled Notes for Stanford CS224n: Natural Language Processing with Deep Learning, https://www.aman.ai, 2020, Accessed: July 1 2020.