HEART: Computers As Authors
Undergraduate course, Johns Hopkins University, 2022
Can you imagine a future where novels, news articles, and comedy were written by a program? This course will introduce students to text generation from the field of natural language processing in which we will discuss the methods, their applications and ethical implications. The class will include hands-on interaction with new technology to aid in the understanding of its capabilities and limitations.
Syllabus
Lecture Slides
| Date | Topic |
|---|---|
| August 29th | Introduction / History of text generation |
| September 12th | Language Modeling |
| September 19th | Data: Sources and Representation |
| September 26th | Methods: Embeddings, Seq2seq, models |
| October 3rd | Evaluation |
| October 10th | Ethics |
| October 17th | The Application Lifecycle |
| October 24th | Huggingface Tutorial |