
Deep Learning for NLP with PyTorch Workshop
A free introduction class to cover the fundamentals of Deep Learning with PyTorch will now be conducted. Register on this separate Eventbrite link for this workshop on June 20th, Saturday, from 10-11:30 am (Pacific Time Zone).
NOTE: While this is a virtual class, we will cap it at classroom size so that there is a strong focus on learning. There is a nominal charge for the 6 hours of lecture – please sign up early as we will keep the attendee count low. This is NOT a MOOC. Registration also includes a 1-year SFBay ACM membership ($20 value)
Abstract – Natural Language Processing (NLP) is the fastest-growing field of deep learning with interest and funding from top AI companies to solve problems of language, text, and unstructured information. This has resulted in a tremendous focus on model building that combines language, mathematics, and computer science.
This workshop will focus on problems of text summarization, question answering, and sentiment classification using modern approaches to model-building (GNMT, BERT). We will apply this to real-world problems to create an NLP pipeline on top of the PyTorch framework and spaCy.
Content: You will have access to all the notebooks, training material to build your own apps. You should be able to directly work on these using Google Colab. For the Workshop itself, we will have AWS instances available for use.
Lead Instructor: Ravi Ilango (Data Scientist)
Key topics covered
This will be a very lecture and lab heavy workshop. We will plan on a 1-hour webinar before the workshop weekend to get you ready for the class so that you can get the most out of it and come away with a tangible outcome. We will have several TAs on-site to help with the learning process, but expect the class to move at a fairly fast clip!)
Day 1: June 27, 10am-1pm, Pacific Time
- Natural Language Process & Transfer Learning
- Fundamentals and application of Language Modeling Tools
- Use NLP pipeline to process documents, Word Vectors
- Introduction to SpaCy and PyTorch
- Introduction to pre-trained models such as BERT
- Sentiment analysis
- Text summarization
Organizer & SFBay ACM Prof Dev Chair: Yashesh Shroff @yashroff
For more information about Registration, please contact SF Bay Chapter of the ACM, yshroff at g | m | a i l
We look forward to seeing you at the workshop!