Deep Learning for NLP

This lecture covers the fundamentals of deep learning for Natural Language Processing (NLP), starting with Neural Word Embeddings, moving on to Recurrent Neural Networks for Sequence Modeling, and concluding with Attentive Neural Modeling with Transformers. The instructor explains the challenges of representing natural language sequences, the concept of word vectors, and the importance of choosing a vocabulary. The lecture also delves into the applications of NLP, such as machine translation, text generation, and sentiment analysis. The use of self-attention and multi-headed attention in Transformers is highlighted as a breakthrough in modeling long-range dependencies in sequences.