Introduction to Neural Machine Translation and Language Processing

Learn about neural machine translation in this comprehensive lecture covering key concepts from embedding matrices to evaluation metrics. Begin with foundational assignments and explore how embedding matrices work in natural language processing. Review recurrent neural networks (RNNs) and understand the teacher forcing training technique. Examine the differences between negative log-likelihood (NLL) and cross-entropy (CE) loss functions. Dive into machine translation fundamentals before focusing on neural approaches to translation tasks. Master various decoding strategies and conclude with understanding BLEU scores for evaluating translation quality. Perfect for students and practitioners interested in modern approaches to automated language translation.