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Mgr. Martin Popel, Ph.D. [32-UFAL], Modern Methods in Computational Linguistics [NPFL095, seminář]
Student has disallowed display of personal data, 17.02.2024, 4. ročník, Informatika, Bachelor's
Mega borec!
Student has disallowed display of personal data, 31.01.2024, 2. ročník, Computer Science - Language Technologies and Computational Linguistics, Master's (post-Bachelor)
Professor Popel provided a well-structured approach to the course and was very proactively engaged during classes.
Student has disallowed display of personal data, 06.01.2024, 1. ročník, Computer Science - Language Technologies and Computational Linguistics, Master's (post-Bachelor)
Mr. Popel manages to organize the discussion throughout the seminars such that students are engaged in the analysis of the paper. He also often explains some general concepts and details about NLP, MT, transformers, and ML such as differences between encoder and decoder-based architectures which is very useful.
Mgr. Martin Popel, Ph.D. [32-UFAL], Natural language processing on computational cluster [NPFL118, cvičení]
Student has disallowed display of personal data, 04.01.2024, 1. Year, Computational linguistics, doctoral
Martin explained everything really well and took his time to answer questions. Without him, half of my accounts probably wouldn't work. His tour of the MS building was great.
Mgr. Rudolf Rosa, Ph.D. [32-UFAL], Natural language processing on computational cluster [NPFL118, cvičení]
Student has disallowed display of personal data, 04.01.2024, 1. Year, Computational linguistics, doctoral
Ruda explained everything really well and took a lot of time to answer additional questions and talk about his own PhD experience.
RNDr. Milan Straka, Ph.D. [32-UFAL], Natural language processing on computational cluster [NPFL118, cvičení]
Student has disallowed display of personal data, 04.01.2024, 1. Year, Computational linguistics, doctoral
Milan explained everything really well and took his time to answer questions and help with the assignments. His Slurm reference helped a lot with my first experiments on the CPU and GPU clusters.
Comment on course, Modern Methods in Computational Linguistics [NPFL095, seminář]
Student has disallowed display of personal data, 17.02.2024, 4. ročník, Informatika, Bachelor's
Skvělý předmět! Čtou se papery, většinou na ne moc pokročilá témata, tedy jestli někdo je zvyklý číst papery a je dobře obeznámený s deep learningem, tak mu to nemusí moc dát. Já jsem byl odnaučen cokoliv číst na střední škole, tedy tuhle věc jsem extrémně ocenil!
Student has disallowed display of personal data, 31.01.2024, 2. ročník, Computer Science - Language Technologies and Computational Linguistics, Master's (post-Bachelor)
This course is a great opportunity to learn how to read papers thoughtfully. I appreciated that we covered not only well-known, must-read papers in NLP field, but also devoted time to recently published articles of the group's choosing.
However, I'd note that the course requires more work-at-home preparation time than one might expect judging by credits estimation - weekly thorough readings + preparation of your own presentation took lots of effort throughout the semester.
Student has disallowed display of personal data, 06.01.2024, 1. ročník, Computer Science - Language Technologies and Computational Linguistics, Master's (post-Bachelor)
This course allows students to explore scientific papers of their choice, learn to analyze the text, and discuss the works of researchers. It's nice to see what themes are interesting for students since often the discussed paper is chosen by students themselves. Of course, proposing some recent research on LLMs and talking about new ML techniques was interesting as well.
Comment on course, Natural language processing on computational cluster [NPFL118, cvičení]
Student has disallowed display of personal data, 04.01.2024, 1. Year, Computational linguistics, doctoral
Generally, a good and detailed introduction to the UFAL infrastructure and pointers to important resources. Almost no questions were left open after the 3 days, but maybe it is too detailed.
2 entire days were spent reading Wiki pages, which was tiring. However, PhD students should be able to understand most of the sections by themselves. For example, an additional meeting was supposed to be scheduled for Biblio, but the system is self-explanatory and everyone finished the checklist anyway. I suggest putting the greatest focus on the Linux network and the topics related to the checklist while going into less detail otherwise. Perhaps, some of the more self-explanatory sections can be left as homework, and a Q&A meeting can be scheduled instead of a reading meeting.
The Slurm and Spark assignments were quite fun, but the grading was a bit too nitpicky at times. Since I immediately started my own PhD-topic-related experiments on the cluster, I would have liked to scrap 1 or 2 of the assignments because they took more time than necessary without giving me a real benefit.
