CS 159

Week 4 Online Lesson: More Models For Text Classification!

  • Goat speaking

    Does anyone else find Naive Bayes kind of...meh? It's way too simplistic a model and it doesn't even perform that well.

  • LParrot speaking

    It's true, Naive Bayes has serious limitations. That's why in this lesson, we'll briefly explore more advanced alternative models.

  • Pig speaking

    Yay! MORE models!

NOTICE: This lesson (alongside its brief continuation next week) is the single most math-heavy online lesson in CS 159. The only math from this lesson that you'll be expected to be able to do on an exam is the math on the third page ("A Biological Inspiration"). For all other pages, we want you to be generally familiar with the mathematical concepts covered, but will not ask you to actually apply the formulas on a homework or exam question. So, while you should take the lesson seriously as always, please do not get lost in the details of figuring out each and every equation. And if anything is just too confusing to follow at even a high level, don't hesitate to let us know in the feedback.

Outline

This is a Modern NLP Connections lesson.

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