Character-level Language Modeling
Module Description
| Course | Module Abbreviation | Credit Points |
|---|---|---|
| BA-2010 | AS-CL, AS-FL | 8 LP |
| BA-2010[100%|75%] | CS-CL | 6 LP |
| BA-2010[50%] | BS-CL | 6 LP |
| BA-2010[25%] | BS-AC, BS-FL | 4 LP |
| Master | SS-CL-TAC | 8 LP |
| Lecturer | Raphael Schumann |
| Module Type | Proseminar / Hauptseminar |
| Language | English |
| First Session | 16.04.2025 |
| Time and Place | Wednesday, 15:15 - 16:45, INF 325 / SR 24 |
| Commitment Period | tbd. |
Participants
All advanced Bachelor students and all Master students. Students from MSc Data and Computer Science or MSc Scientific computing with Anwendungsgebiet Computational Linguistics are welcome after getting permission from the lecturer.
Prerequisite for Participation
- Completion of Programming I and Introduction to Computational Linguistics or similar introductory courses
- Introduction to Neural Networks
Assessment
- Paper presentation
- Implementation project
- Prepare questions for each session's paper
Content
Character-level language models allow to process text without relying on predefined vocabularies, making them more adaptable to diverse languages and domains. Participants will learn about the motivation, history and state-of-the-art methods to process character/byte-level text inputs.
Module Overview
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