Michael K. Senior Member United States Joined 5731 days ago 568 posts - 886 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Esperanto
| Message 1 of 5 06 March 2012 at 11:43pm | IP Logged |
Stanford University is offering a free course on Natural Language Processing starting March 12th. As you can guess from the title, it is a programming and linguistics class.
https://www.coursera.org/nlp/auth/welcome
Be sure you can meet the schedule (10 hours a week) and can do the following:
Know basic probabilty & calculus
Know about vectors and vector spaces
Be able to program using Python or Java
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tommus Senior Member CanadaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5868 days ago 979 posts - 1688 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Dutch, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish
| Message 2 of 5 07 March 2012 at 4:35am | IP Logged |
Thanks Michael. This is very interesting!
I have signed up and have watched the Introduction lecture. It was excellent. Full of meat. This looks like an excellent and useful course. I will use Java, and it looks like there will be a lot of new stuff to learn.
They say they will have 10,000 students for this class. Hard to believe, but the forum is already very busy. Study groups are already getting organised around the world and in a number of languages. I think the course will be challenging for those without a good ability in reading and listening in English. The first lecture had a lot of material and it went fast. But you can download the videos and the slides. Some people are asking for sub-titles but I'd be surprised if they are added.
The course starts on Mar 12 and goes for 8 weeks. Finishes on 8 May.
Thanks again Michael! Are you going to do it?
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tommus Senior Member CanadaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5868 days ago 979 posts - 1688 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Dutch, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish
| Message 3 of 5 07 March 2012 at 5:20am | IP Logged |
tommus wrote:
Some people are asking for sub-titles but I'd be surprised if they are added. |
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Bite my tongue! I'm surprised. They already have sub-titles. So that will make it much easier for ESL people, especially considering the quite-fast audio.
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Michael K. Senior Member United States Joined 5731 days ago 568 posts - 886 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Esperanto
| Message 4 of 5 07 March 2012 at 10:51am | IP Logged |
No, I'm not. I'm already taking 5 classes, my math skills are horrible (I can't even do algebra anymore), and I don't know anything about programming.
I just saw a list for some free courses offered at Stanford and since this was language related decided to post it on the forum to see if anyone would be interested.
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egill Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5698 days ago 418 posts - 791 votes Speaks: Mandarin, English* Studies: German, Spanish, Dutch
| Message 5 of 5 07 March 2012 at 7:26pm | IP Logged |
Very cool! The two professors here literally wrote the book (or at least one of them) on
the subject. This is also very impressive on a logistical front, even if similar courses
been done before.
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