What to expect:

This is a more advanced NLP course for linguists or CS majors new to NLP. It will cover the basic types of ML algorithms that are widely used in the current NLP, striving to accommodate even the attendees without mathematical background. Additionally, it will discuss advanced NLP topics in which linguistic expertise of ESSLLI attendees is needed the most: the creation of datasets, evaluation, and general methodology.

We will also discuss the latest developments in word-level, compositional and contextualized meaning representations.