We invite you to Yandex NLP for a week

From March 26 to March 29, Yandex will host the NLP week, organized jointly by the School of Data Analysis and Yandex.Research. This is a four-day intensive, designed for developers and researchers familiar with Natural Language Processing and deep learning.

Lecturers: Mirella Lapata, Professor, School of Computer Science, University of Edinburgh; and Wilker Aziz, Assistant Professor, Institute of Logic, Language, and Computing, University of Amsterdam. Lectures will be delivered in English in the evening.



As part of the course, you will learn:

• How latent variables are used in text analysis problems and how to build deep generative models with latent discrete variables.
• What is semantic parsing: how to build formal representations of the meaning of the text, while extracting implicit values.

Lesson schedule:

26.03 - 18: 00-21: 00 - Latent variable models and posterior inference (Wilker Aziz)
03.03 - 18: 00-21: 00 - Deep generative models for NLP (Wilker Aziz)
28.03 - 18: 00-21: 00 - Advanced topics (Wilker Aziz)
03/29 - 18: 00-21: 00 - Semantic parsing (Mirella Lapata)

Intensive will be useful if you have the following knowledge:

• NLP: good knowledge and experience.
• Machine Learning: Good knowledge of machine learning and deep learning.
• Mathematics: knowledge of linear algebra and probability theory.
• Programming: Python and knowledge of the PyTorch library.
• English: fluent understanding of professional English.

To take part in the event, you must fill out a questionnaire . The event is free, but the number of seats is limited. The questionnaire must be completed by March 18. The answer to your application will come no later than March 20 to the mail indicated at registration. Any questions about the event can be sent to shad@yandex-team.ru marked Yandex NLP week.