Tanja Samardžić, University of Geneva, Lecture notes, Autumn 2023

These notes should be used as a guide for acquiring the most important notions and terminology in contemporary Natural Language Processing. Most of the notions mentioned in the notes are explained in the listed sources. A few visualisations are included in the notes for a better overview and intuitive understanding. This course includes a practical part too, which is managed on Moodle.

Online textbooks:

• Dan Jurafsky and James H. Martin: Speech and Language Processing (3rd ed. draft)
• Jacob Eisenstein: Natural Language Processing
• Yoav Goldberg: A Primer on Neural Network Models for Natural Language Processing
• Tom Mitchell: Machine Learning - an old classic

Blogs and other learning resources:

• Lena Voita's NLP course
• Hugging Face Course
• Jay Alammar's blog
• Serrano Academy
• YouTube channel 3blue1brown
• YouTube channel Crash Course Linguistics