NLP 2025 Assignments – Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

This repository contains all coursework for the Natural Language Processing (NLP) course at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Spring 2025.

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• Assignment 2: Language Modeling with N-Grams & Word Vectors

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Assignment 2: Language Modeling with N-Grams & Word Vectors

This assignment explores core techniques in statistical NLP:

• Text Processing & Zipf’s Law using the Brown Corpus
• N-Gram Language Modeling with additive smoothing and generation
• Word Vector Representations using co-occurrence statistics
• Optional: Pointwise Mutual Information (PMI & PPMI) for modeling statistical dependence

The code for A2.1 is contained in problem1.py, for A2.2 the final code is presented in NLP_A2_final.ipynb and the code for the bonus question is present in pmi.ipynb.

This assignment was created for the NLP 2025 course at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.