Inglês para Computação

Evaluation

• 50% of the grade: classroom and homework activities
  
• 50% of the grade: midterm and final exams.

Activities

• Deadlines: Activities must be handed in before the next class.
• Activities handed in late are worth only half as much.
• Activities handed in later than a week will not be accepted.

Exams

• Midterm exam: 9th class
• Final exam: 17th class

Class 1 (2019-08-05)

Computational Linguistics

Contents

• Videos
• Part 1
• Part 2
• Videos 1 to 12

Activities

• Link to material about Natural Language Processing
• Videos
• Part 2
• 04 - Counting Words
• 07 - Quiz Split Sentence

For links check the Virtual Blackboard
and for submitting assignments check Google Classroom

Class 2 (2019-08-12)

Computational Linguistics

Contents

• Videos
• Part 2
• Videos 13 and 14
• Part 3
• Videos 1 to 6
• Academic Vocabulary in Use
• Page 20

Activities

• Videos
• Part 3
• 05 - Lab Space Geek
• Academic Vocabulary in Use
• Page 21, ex. 6.1

For links check the Virtual Blackboard
and for submitting assignments check Google Classroom

Class 3 (2019-08-19)

Computational Linguistics

Contents

• Videos
• Part 3
• Videos 7 to 11
• Part 4
• Part 5
• Lesson 1 to 3
• Lesson 4
• Videos 1 to 9
• Vox ex Machina (Episode from podcast 99% Invisible)

Activities

• Questions about “Vox ex Machina”
1. What did the Voder do?
2. How were the operators of the Voder called?
3. What did each key on the keyboard control?
4. What did each pedal control?
5. When was the Voder presented for the first time?
6. Who created the Voder?
7. What was the Vocoder?
8. What mission did the US government give to Bell Labs?
9. Who did Bell labs assigned that mission to?
10. What was SIGSALY's top secret component?
11. What happened with SIGSALY's computers at the end of the war?
12. Who sued the US government to learn about the technology used in SIGSALY?

For links check the Virtual Blackboard
and for submitting assignments check Google Classroom

Class 4 (2019-08-26)

Computational Linguistics

Contents

• Videos
• Part 5
• Lesson 4
• Videos 10 to 14
• Lesson 5
• Videos 1 to 12
• Lesson 6
• Videos 1 to 6
• Academic Vocabulary in Use
• Page 21, ex. 6.1

Activities

• See Google Classroom

For links check the Virtual Blackboard
and for submitting assignments check Google Classroom

Class 5 (2019-09-02)

Computational Linguistics

Contents

• Videos
• Part 5
• Lesson 6
• Videos 7 to 15
• Part 6
• Lesson 1
• Videos 1 to 8
• Intermediate Grammar in Use
• Unit 80 (p.171)
• Unit 81 (p.173)

Activities

• See Google Classroom

For links check the Virtual Blackboard
and for submitting assignments check Google Classroom

Class 6 (2019-09-09)

Computational Linguistics

Contents

• Videos
• Part 6
• Lesson 1
• Videos 9 and 10
• Lesson 2
• Videos 1 to 11
• Academic Vocabulary in Use
• Chapter 13 (pp.34-35)

Activities

• See Google Classroom

For links check the Virtual Blackboard
and for submitting assignments check Google Classroom

Class 7 (2019-09-16)

Computational Linguistics: Practice

Activities

• Finish Project 1 and start Project 2. See Google Classroom

For links check the Virtual Blackboard
and for submitting assignments check Google Classroom

Class 8 (2019-09-23)

Computational Linguistics: Practice

Activities

• Finish Project 2. See Google Classroom

For links check the Virtual Blackboard
and for submitting assignments check Google Classroom

Class 9 (2019-09-30)

Midterm exam

Class 10 (2019-10-07)

Computational Linguistics

• Videos
• What is NLP? (NLP video 1)
• Jupyter noteboook

Activities

• See Google Classroom

For links check the Virtual Blackboard
and for submitting assignments check Google Classroom

Class 11 (2019-10-14)

Computational Linguistics

• Videos
• Topic Modeling with SVD & NMF (NLP video 2)
• Jupyter noteboook

Activities

• See Google Classroom

For links check the Virtual Blackboard
and for submitting assignments check Google Classroom

Class 12 (2019-10-21)

Computational Linguistics

• Videos
• Topic Modeling & SVD revisited (NLP video 3)
• Jupyter noteboook
• Sentiment Classification with Naive Bayes (NLP video 4)
• Jupyter noteboook

Activities

• See Google Classroom

For links check the Virtual Blackboard
and for submitting assignments check Google Classroom

Class 13 (2019-11-04)

Computational Linguistics

• Videos
• Sentiment Classification with Naive Bayes & Logistic Regression, contd. (NLP video 5)
• Jupyter noteboook

Activities

• See Google Classroom

For links check the Virtual Blackboard
and for submitting assignments check Google Classroom

Class 14 (2019-11-11)

Computational Linguistics

• Videos
• Derivation of Naive Bayes & Numerical Stability (NLP video 6)
• Jupyter noteboook
• Revisiting Naive Bayes, and Regex (NLP video 7)
• Jupyter noteboook

Activities

• See Google Classroom

For links check the Virtual Blackboard
and for submitting assignments check Google Classroom

Class 15 (2019-11-18)

Computational Linguistics

• Videos
• Intro to Language Modeling (NLP video 8)
• Jupyter noteboook
• Transfer learning (NLP video 9) [up to 00:34:28]
• Jupyter noteboook

Activities

• See Google Classroom

For links check the Virtual Blackboard
and for submitting assignments check Google Classroom

Class 16 (2019-11-25)

Computational Linguistics

• Videos
• Transfer learning (NLP video 9) [starting at 00:34:28]
• Jupyter noteboook

Activities

• See Google Classroom

For links check the Virtual Blackboard
and for submitting assignments check Google Classroom