About NLP 100 Exercise

Change Log

2020-12-25

Released NLP 100 Exercise 2020 Rev 2.

• Completed Chinese translation
  • All Chapters were translated by Runzhe Zhan and Youmi Ma.
• A bug fix in the Japanese version
  • Revised a word usage in the problem 32 (#28)

2020-06-08

Released NLP 100 Exercise 2020 Rev 1.

• Completed English translation
  • Chapters 5 to 10 were translated by Shun Kiyono, Benjamin Heinzerling, Ana Brassard, and Paul Reisert.
  • Fixed a spelling mistake in the problem 07 (#12)
  • Included a POS-tagged text in Chapter 4 (#13)
  • Revised the description for the problem 38 (#14)
  • Revised the description for the problem 08 (#24)
  • Fixed an incorrect translation in the problem 18
  • Other fixes for spelling and styling mistakes
• Korean translation (up to the problem 39)
  • Chapters 1 to 4 were translated by Sangwhan Moon.
• Numerous bugfixes in the Japanese version
  • Revised an expression in Chapter 8 (#1)
  • Fixed an incorrect math rendering in the problem 49 (#2)
  • Fixed an incorrect title in Chapter 6 (#2)
  • Fixed the incorrect data in Chapter 4 (#6)
  • Revised the description of the problem 51 (#7)
  • Revised the descriptions in the problems 50 and 51 (#8)
  • Revised the description of the problem 75 (#9)
  • Fixed the incorrect link in Chapter 5 (#16)
  • Revised the description of the problem 04 (#18)
  • Changed the sample text in Chapter 5 to reduce errors in dependency parsers (#19)
  • Revised the description of the problem 69 (#21)
  • Revised the description of the problem 71 (#22)

We deeply appreciate those who involved in this release especially by reporting Issues and sending Pull Requests.

2020-04-06

Released NLP 100 Exercise 2020.

• Added problems about Deep Neural Networks.
• Multilingual support.
  • Released English translations (Problems 00 to 39).
  • Moved Chapter 6 (English text processing) of the old version into English version.

2015-03-12

Released NLP 100 Exercise 2015 (in Japanese only).

• Added problems about distributional representations.
• Released the data publicly associated with the problems.
• Revised the problems for more practical use of NLP.

2012-04-03

Released the first version (in Japanese only).

Data sources

• popular-names.txt: National data (converted to TSV format), distributed on the Web site, “Beyond the Top 1000 Names”, Social Security Administration (SSA).
• enwiki-country.json.gz: Articles (in JSON format) describing countries that were extracted from English Wikipedia dump as of April 5, 2020. This file is distributed under the term of Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported.
• alice.zip: The novel “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” (written by Lewis Carroll) from Project Gutenberg. Please see 11.txt for the Project Gutenberg License.
• ai.en.zip: The article “Artificial intelligence” from English Wikipedia. This file is distributed under the term of Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported.

About NLP 100 Exercise

• NLP 100 Exercise was developed and maintained by Naoaki Okazaki (Tokyo Institute of Technology).
• Many thanks go to Shun Kiyono (Tohoku University) for suggestions and revisions, and Sho Yokoi (Tohoku University) and Ryo Takahashi (Tohoku University) for suggestions in developing NLP 100 Exercise 2020.
• NLP 100 Exercise was translated into English by Shun Kiyono, Benjamin Heinzerling, Ana Brassard, Paul Reisert, and Naoaki Okazaki.
• NLP 100 Exercise was translated into Korean by Sangwhan Moon.
• NLP 100 Exercise was initially developed by Naoaki Okazaki in 2011-2012 for the use in a study group for programming in Inui-Okazaki Laboratory (currently, Inui-Suzuki Laboratory).
• The format where new students for studying NLP solve 100 assignments was inspired by the practice in the laboratory of Prof Satoshi Sato, Nagoya University.

Contact

We welcome feedback/suggestions as issues and pull requests in the GitHub repository. If you would like to contact us about a matter aside from feedback/suggestions, please send an email to nlp100 at nlp.c.titech.ac.jp.