This tutorial provides instructions for installing Docker on Ubuntu. While the steps outlined here may work for other versions of Ubuntu (and some non-Ubuntu Linux distributions), these instructions were tested against Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.

ubuntu docker snlp-2

Installing Ubuntu using VirtualBox

This tutorial provides instructions for installing the latest Ubuntu LTS (Long Term Support) version using VirtualBox.

ubuntu virtualbox

Installing VS Code on Ubuntu

This tutorial provides instructions for installing Visual Studio Code on Ubuntu. While the steps outlined here may work for other versions of Ubuntu (and some non-Ubuntu Linux distributions), these instructions were tested against Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.

vs-code

Introduction to containers

This lesson introduces you to the concept of containerization.

containers

Introduction to scikit-learn

In this tutorial, we're going to step through training a naïve Bayes classifier with n-gram features using a popular machine learning library in Python called scikit-learn. This library provides implementations and an easy-to-use interface for many supervised and...

scikit-learn

Introductions to tokens

In this lesson, we'll look at a definition of token and see some examples in English.

tokens

Japanese: tokens and part of speech

This is a brief look at tokenization and part of speech assignment in Japanese.

japanese tokens parts-of-speech

Language models (beginner)

In this lesson, we'll learn about estimating the probability of n-grams and see how we can approximate the probability of a document using n-gram probabilities.

language-models n-grams probability

Launching an instance on Jetstream 2

This tutorial provides instructions for launching an instance (virtual server) on Jetstream 2 using the Exosphere user interface.

jetstream-2

Linux command line basics

This tutorial introduces you to the basics of the Linux command line.

linux cli bash

N-grams

In this lesson, we'll learn about n-grams and see how they can be used as general features to represent words and documents.

n-grams

Named entities

This lesson provides an introduction to named entities (NEs).

named-entities ne iob

Parts of Speech

This lesson provides an introduction to parts of speech.

parts-of-speech upos penn-tagset

Probability basics

Ambiguity and uncertainty abound in natural language. In this lesson, we'll learn the basics of probability which will help us to quantify that uncertainty.

beginner probability

Regular expressions (beginner)

In this lesson, you'll be introduced to regular expressions (regexes) and practice using this pattern language to identify spans of text.

regex beginner

RNNs for NLP

This tutorial provides an overview of recurrent neural networks (RNNs) and encoder-decoder architectures in the context of NLP.

dl nlp rnn encoder-decoder

State machines and regular expressions

In this lesson, we'll learn a little about the connection between regular expessions and state machines. You'll explore this topic in much more depth in LING 538.

regex state-machine

Text normalization

This lesson provides an introduction to text normalization.

normalization preprocessing

Tips and tricks

This tutorial provides some useful default settings and strategies when using deep learning for NLP.

dl nlp snlp-2

Tokenizing using regex

In earlier lessons, we introduced the idea of tokens and discussed some of their attributes. We devised some informal descriptions of the clues that signal token boundaries (ex. whitespace, contractions, etc.). In this lesson, we'll how to use regexes to tokenize...

regex tokenizer

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