Schedule#

Caveat: Schedule is bound to change. See change stamps below.

session date topic resource  
1 Oct 26 overview: course & NLG Gatt & Krahmer (2018)  
2 Nov 2 pragmatics, reference games, RSA Scontras et al. (2021)  
3 Nov 9 PyTorch basics PyTorch tutorial  
4 Nov 16 Optimization    
5 Nov 23 ANNs    
6 Dec 7 RNNs    
7 Dec 14 LSTMs, decoding & train regimes    
8 Dec 21 transformers    
9 Jan 11 grounded LMs    
10 Jan 18 pragmatic NLG    
12 Jan 25 pragmatic NLG    

References#

Gatt, A., & Krahmer, E. (2018). Survey of the state of the art in natural language generation: core tasks, applications and evaluation. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 61, 65–170. http://dx.doi.org/10.1613/jair.5477

Scontras, G., Tessler, M. H., & Franke, M. (2021). A practical introduction to the rational speech act modeling framework. https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.09867

List of change stamps#

Last change: [2023-01-11 Wed]

Previous changes: [2022-12-07 Wed], [2022-11-09 Wed] , [2022-11-01 Tue], [2022-10-15 Sat]