Lecture 1 | Natural Language Processing with Deep Learning
What it is
The first lecture of Stanford's Natural Language Processing with Deep Learning course, taught by Chris Manning and Richard Socher. It introduces NLP and word vectors, including SVD, skip-gram, CBOW, negative sampling and word2vec.
Why Hacker News recommends it
Recommended as one of the best free courses for learning modern deep learning for NLP.
- 3 people recommended it
- 3 different months
- 1 strong recommendations
- first 2017, last 2018
What HN commenters said
“I will suggest two brilliant courses from Stanford”
One of two brilliant Stanford courses on recent deep learning advances.
neel8986, 2018-01 · Strong recommendation · in “Ask HN: How to Seriously Start with Machine Learning and AI”
“For those who like Prof Manning's style and want to get more in depth, here are the lecture videos for the NLP course he teaches at Stanford”
Stanford NLP course lectures by Prof. Manning.
ahussain, 2017-12 · Recommendation · in “Theoretical Machine Learning Lecture Series: Deep Learning and Cognition”
“That class is good. it should take a long time to grok.”
Good Stanford NLP class that takes time to absorb.
morugin, 2018-03 · Recommendation · in “Amazon Is Hiring More Developers for Alexa Than Google Is Hiring for Everything”
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Topics: word vectors, word2vec, nlp, deep learning, stanford
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