NLP & LLMs: Harnessing the power of language for economic and related research
Wann
Donnerstag, 5. September 2024
9:30 bis 17 Uhr
Wo
München
Veranstaltet von
BERD@NFDI
Vortragende Person/Vortragende Personen:
Matthias Aßenmacher
Do you want to learn how to make use of text data for your research?
This in-person workshop is ideal for researchers who want to learn the potential of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Large Language Models (LLMs) for economic and related research.
You will receive a broad overview of the theoretical foundations of NLP and its practical concepts. The workshop closes with a Coding Lab to apply this knowledge to real world problems.
Prerequisites
A basic understanding of Machine Learning and Deep Learning is required.
Basic Python skills are required. Familiarity with common modules for text processing and deep learning frameworks is recommended.
Schedule
09:30 – 11:00 NLP Basics (1-3)
11:15 – 12:45 Neural Nets & Transfer Learning (4-8)
13:45 – 15:45 Generative Models (9-End)
16:00 – 17:00 Coding Lab
Topics
1 Learning Paradigms
2 NLP tasks
3 Word Embeddings
4 Recurrent Neural Networks
5 Attention
6 The BERT Architecture
7 BERTology
8 Model distillation
9 Towards a unified task format
10 GPT series