Westlake University today announced the launch of a free, open online course on Natural Language Processing (NLP), taught by Professor Yue Zhang, head of the NLP Lab at the School of Engineering.

Natural-language-processing applications are ubiquitous: Alexa can set a reminder, or play a particular song, or provide your local weather if you ask; Google Translate can make documents readable ...

Analyze corpora for the purpose of developing effective lexicons. Develop language models that can assign probabilities to texts. Design, implement, and evaluate the effectiveness of text classifiers.

Start working toward program admission and requirements right away. Work you complete in the non-credit experience will transfer to the for-credit experience when you ...

In the first half of this course, we will explore the evolution of deep neural network language models, starting with n-gram models and proceeding through feed-forward neural networks, recurrent ...