Education is something we feel passionate about, and as STEM skills become essential in today’s work environments, we are committed to providing avenues for people to improve their data science expertise. As one of Europe’s largest internet companies, we have a responsibility to help educate future generations in data science, artificial intelligence, and machine learning. The Yandex School of Data Analysis (YSDA), a free master’s-level program in computer science, is at the centerpiece of these efforts.
Through the MA program, YSDA provides students with the opportunity to take courses in many different data science fields, and participate in internships, online courses, and additional extended educational opportunities. As part of our commitment to education and our support of data science learning, we’re excited to kick off a new extended education effort this week - the first Natural Language Processing (NLP) Week at Yandex’s headquarters in Moscow.
NLP Week 2019 offers students a research-oriented intensive program on NLP in English. Each course will be three hours long, for a total of twelve hours of in-person teaching throughout the week. NLP Week acts as an extension to the NLP course taught at YSDA, but any students or professionals with a sufficient background in NLP and a strong command of English could also register for the course. By the end of the four-day course, students at NLP Week will have learned the NLP applications of latent variables, deep generative models and semantic parsing.
Students of the Yandex School of Data Analysis
We are thrilled to welcome two respected experts in the field to teach NLP week! Wilker Aziz of the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation at the University of Amsterdam will teach courses on latent variable models, deep generative models, and advanced topics. Mirella Lapata of the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh will teach semantic parsing.
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We look forward to all the exciting classes ahead this week. We will be sharing more on our social channels and welcome our students to join the conversation!