This repository contains slide decks, programming exercises, and links to recorded lectures videos for the course "Natural Language Processing with Deep Learning" (Ruhr University Bochum, winter term 2025/2026).
This course is lectured by Prof. Dr. Ivan Habernal.
The slides are available as PDF as well as LaTeX source code (we've used Beamer because typesetting mathematics in PowerPoint or similar tools is painful). See the instructions below if you want to compile the slides yourselves.
The content is licensed under Creative Commons CC BY-SA 4.0 which means that you can re-use, adapt, modify, or publish it further, provided you keep the license and give proper credits.
Note: The following content is continuously updated as the winter term progresses.
To see the previous full 2024/25 course content, checkout the latest 2025 commit.
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- Assignments under exercises/ex01
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- What are some essential pre-requisites?
- Math: Derivatives and partial derivatives. We cover them in Lecture 2. If you need more, I would recommend these sources:
- Jeremy Kun: A Programmer's Introduction to Mathematics. Absolutely amazing book. Pay-what-you-want for the PDF book. https://pimbook.org/
- Deisenroth, A. Aldo Faisal, and Cheng Soon Ong: Mathematics for Machine Learning. Excellent resource, freely available. Might be a bit dense. https://mml-book.github.io/
- Math: Derivatives and partial derivatives. We cover them in Lecture 2. If you need more, I would recommend these sources:
- Where do I find the code for plotting the functions?
- Most of the plots are generated in Python/Jupyter (in Colab). The links are included as comments in the respective LaTeX sources for the slides.
If you run a linux distribution (e.g., Ubuntu 24.04 and newer), all packages are provided as part of texlive. Install the following packages
$ sudo apt-get install texlive-latex-recommended texlive-pictures texlive-latex-extra \
texlive-fonts-extra texlive-bibtex-extra texlive-humanities texlive-science \
texlive-luatex biber rubber wget -y
- Install RUB fonts
- I've prepared a shell script which downloads the TTF files and installs them
$ chmod +x install-rub-fonts.sh
$ ./install-rub-fonts.shRun the script compile-pdf.sh in each lecture's folder to produce both handouts as well as unfolding PDFs used in the lecture.
If you don't run a linux system or don't want to mess up your latex packages, I've tested compiling the slides in a Docker.
Install Docker ( https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/ ), e.g. apt-get install docker.io and add the user do the docker group on Linux
Create a folder to which you clone this repository (for example, $ mkdir -p /tmp/slides)
Run Docker with Ubuntu 24.04 interactively; mount your slides directory under /mnt in this Docker container
$ docker run -it --rm --mount type=bind,source=/tmp/slides,target=/mnt \
ubuntu:24.04 /bin/bash
Once the container is running, update, install packages and fonts as above
# apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade -y && apt-get install texlive-latex-recommended \
texlive-pictures texlive-latex-extra texlive-fonts-extra texlive-bibtex-extra \
texlive-humanities texlive-science texlive-luatex biber rubber wget -y
Install RUB fonts as above
Compile the output PDF with lualatex and biber (using rubber for orchestrating re-compilation easily)
$ rubber --module lualatex 20XX-XX-XX-who-where.tex