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The Future: Computational Linguistics and Deep Learning

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This lecture explores the unstoppable rise of computational linguistics in deep learning, discussing grammar formalisms, connectionism, variable binding, and the influence of computational linguistics on deep learning architectures. It also covers early neural network models of language, attention-based models, transformers, and future directions in inducing entities and levels from data.

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Neural network

A neural network can refer to a neural circuit of biological neurons (sometimes also called a biological neural network), a network of artificial neurons or nodes in the case of an artificial neural network. Artificial neural networks are used for solving artificial intelligence (AI) problems; they model connections of biological neurons as weights between nodes. A positive weight reflects an excitatory connection, while negative values mean inhibitory connections. All inputs are modified by a weight and summed.

Artificial neural network

Artificial neural networks (ANNs, also shortened to neural networks (NNs) or neural nets) are a branch of machine learning models that are built using principles of neuronal organization discovered by connectionism in the biological neural networks constituting animal brains. An ANN is based on a collection of connected units or nodes called artificial neurons, which loosely model the neurons in a biological brain. Each connection, like the synapses in a biological brain, can transmit a signal to other neurons.

Connectionism

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