Welcome to a New Semester

The first lecture in IN5550 this term will be this coming Tuesday, January 15, at 12:15.  We will go through course logistics (including routines for assignments and the final project-based exam) and motivate the now dominant use of neural architectures in Natural Language Processing (and most other sub-fields of Artificial Intelligence).

To prepare for this class, we ask that everyone fill in a brief anonymous survey about their background and request access to the Saga national supercluster.

There will be no screencasting in this class, and we will rather put our effort into making the lectures worthwhile, interactive, and fun.  Both for obligatory assignments and the final project we encourage group work (of two to three students), and regular lecture and laboratory attendance will be a prerequisite to forming strong groups.