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Course unit, curriculum year 2024–2025
DATA.ML.440

Neural Language Models, 5 cr

Tampere University
Teaching periods
Active in period 3 (1.1.2025–2.3.2025)
Course code
DATA.ML.440
Language of instruction
English
Academic years
2024–2025, 2025–2026, 2026–2027
Level of study
Advanced studies
Grading scale
General scale, 0-5
Persons responsible
Responsible teacher:
Jyrki Nummenmaa
Responsible teacher:
Jaakko Peltonen
Responsible teacher:
Pekka Abrahamsson
Responsible organisation
Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences 100 %
Coordinating organisation
Computing Sciences Studies 100 %
  • Natural language understanding

  • Word representations

  • Feed-forward, recurrent, and convolutional neural networks for NLP

  • Sequence to sequence models, attention and self-attention, and relevant models

  • Text generation and decoding techniques

  • Summarization and topic extraction

  • Sentiment analysis

  • Machine translation

  • Captioning (image and audio), question answering, dialogue systems, and chatbots

Learning outcomes
Compulsory prerequisites
Learning material
Studies that include this course
Completion option 1
Course assignments

Participation in teaching

07.01.2025 25.02.2025
Active in period 3 (1.1.2025–2.3.2025)