#acl Niklas Schnelle:read,write Thomas Goette:read,write
= Welcome to the Wiki of the seminar ''Deep Natural Language Processing'' in the winter semester 2017/2018 =

This seminar is organized by [[http://ad.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/staff/bast|Prof. Dr. Hannah Bast]] with the assistance of [[http://ad.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/staff/schnelle|Niklas Schnelle]] and [[mailto:thomas.goette@mars.uni-freiburg.de|Thomas Goette]]. The seminar will take place every Wednesday, 4:15 pm - 5:45 pm, in the seminar room 02-017 in building 52. There will be '''no''' session on Wednesday, October 25th, 2017, on Wednesday, November 1st, 2017 (All Hallows), on Wednesday, December 27th, 2017, and on Wednesday, January 3rd, 2018 (christmas break).

== Topics ==
The topics are going to be introduced and roughly explained in the first session. They are basically about how Deep Learning can be used in Natural Language Processing.

 * Standard Language Model
 * RNN language model
 * word2vec
 * Paraphrasing
 * Convolutional Networks
 * Text Classification
 * Sentiment Analysis
 * Attention
 * Open-Domain Question answering (QA) aka QA on Text
 * Deep Aqqu-style QA aka. Semantic Parsing aka QA on Knowledge Base

== Sessions ==
||Session ||Date ||Topic ||
||1  ||Wednesday, October  18th, 2017 ||'''Introduction and Organization''' ||
||   ||Wednesday, October  25th, 2017 ||'''NO SESSION''' ||
||   ||Wednesday, November  1st, 2017 ||'''NO SESSION''' ||
||2  ||Wednesday, November  8th, 2017 ||'''Machine Learning Introduction''' (Niklas Schnelle) + topic assignment ||
||3  ||Wednesday, November 15th, 2017 ||'''Deep Learning Introduction''' (Thomas Goette) ||
||4  ||Wednesday, November 22nd, 2017 || ||
||5  ||Wednesday, November 29th, 2017 || ||
||6  ||Wednesday, December  6th, 2017 || ||
||7  ||Wednesday, December 13rd, 2017 || ||
||8  ||Wednesday, December 20th, 2017 || ||
||   ||Wednesday, December 27th, 2017 ||'''NO SESSION''' ||
||   ||Wednesday, January   3rd, 2018 ||'''NO SESSION''' ||
||9  ||Wednesday, January  10th, 2018 || ||
||10 ||Wednesday, January  17th, 2018 || ||
||11 ||Wednesday, January  24th, 2018 || ||
||12 ||Wednesday, January  31st, 2018 || ||
||13 ||Wednesday, February  7th, 2018 || ||