Machine learning and natural language processing
3. Distributional semantics, LSA, word embeddings
Lectures slides (all materials, refs, etc. provided inline):
Pa164 lecture 03
Additional readings
QUESTIONS AND TASKS:
Distributional hypothesis - historical context, linguistic motivations and practical implementations
Distributional vs. formal semantics
Latent semantic analysis - basic principles, pros and cons
Word embedings - comparison of selected popular approaches
Basic principles of language models and their training process