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Oxford Deep NLP – An advanced course on natural language processing

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Re: Oxford Deep NLP – An advanced course on natural language processing

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Post by arethuza »

NPDW wrote: post #8
orthoganol wrote: post #6

> The primary assessment for this course will be a take-home assignment issued at the end of the term. This assignment will ask questions drawing on the concepts and models discussed in the course, as well as from selected research publications. Comes as a surprise that it's not a project, as, in my experience, all ML/ DL courses I've seen online from US universities (Cal, Stanford, etc.) require. Different universit…

Oxbridge is very much exam based assessment. With your degree depending only on the exams taken at the end of the final year. So the take-home assessments are there just to make sure that you understand what you're doing and can progress to the next part of the course.

I must say that I am rather glad the degree I did at a Scottish university was based mainly of 4th year exams, with an element of 3rd year exams and coursework.

The idea of a averaging all of your work across your course would have been a disaster for me as I did rather poorly in year 1, scraped through year 2 and did spectacularly well in years 3 and 4.

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Post by tonyedgecombe »

arethuza wrote: post #11
NPDW wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oxbridge is very much exam based assessment. With your degree depending only on the exams taken at the end of the final year. So the take-home assessments are there just to make sure that you understand what you're doing and can progress to the next part of the course.

I must say that I am rather glad the degree I did at a Scottish university was based mainly of 4th year exams, with an element of 3rd year exams and coursework. The idea of a averaging all of your work across your course would have been a disaster for me as I did rather poorly in year 1, scraped through year 2 and did spectacularly well in years 3 and 4.

I'm not sure about Oxford but certainly for Cambridge you aren't graded overall, instead you get a grade for each part of the tripos[1] (two parts).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripos

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Post by NPDW »

tonyedgecombe wrote: post #13
arethuza wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I must say that I am rather glad the degree I did at a Scottish university was based mainly of 4th year exams, with an element of 3rd year exams and coursework. The idea of a averaging all of your work across your course would have been a disaster for me as I did rather poorly in year 1, scraped through year 2 and did spectacularly well in years 3 and 4.

I'm not sure about Oxford but certainly for Cambridge you aren't graded overall, instead you get a grade for each part of the tripos[1] (two parts). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripos

Yes but you generally treat your degree as being graded by whatever you got in part II

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Post by jkbschwarz »

Im taking this course at Oxford and they have been working through the practicals 1-3 (further ones will be posted)

For anyone considering working through this outside of Oxford: I think the practicals are the real gems here and should be doable without the practical lab sessions that you get when attending the course. With that being said, they use a dataset a bit closer to a real world assignment. Therefore, it requires some patience when wrangling the data especially for the later practicals.

However, the patience should pay off and it is rewarding once you build your own nonsense spewing TEDbot!

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Post by ianopolous »

tonyedgecombe wrote: post #13
arethuza wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I must say that I am rather glad the degree I did at a Scottish university was based mainly of 4th year exams, with an element of 3rd year exams and coursework. The idea of a averaging all of your work across your course would have been a disaster for me as I did rather poorly in year 1, scraped through year 2 and did spectacularly well in years 3 and 4.

I'm not sure about Oxford but certainly for Cambridge you aren't graded overall, instead you get a grade for each part of the tripos[1] (two parts). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripos

In Oxford, at least for Physics, your grades from every year (except possibly the first) count, but they are heavily weighted towards later years.

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Post by option_greek »

visarga wrote: post #18
option_greek wrote: post #17

What are the practical uses of language modelling RNNs ? (apart from writing grammar/syntax checkers)

Language encoding and generation (sequence to sequence).

Could you expand a bit on that. I have come across examples generating poems from Shakespeare works and realistic looking css/javascript but still trying to find out a more realistic usecase.
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