Obligatory assignment 1 is now online

The first obligatory assignment is now online, on the Git repository. It deals with building a neural document classifier using bags-of-words or word embeddings as features. It also touches upon recurrent neural networks (RNNs).

The assignment is due February 23, but feel free to start working on it. We have already covered linear classifiers, feed-forward neural networks and word embeddings in the lectures, and will cover RNNs next week.

We will provide extensive practice in building neural classifiers with PyTorch at the group sessions.