COSC 410LA S25 Lab 5: Character-Level Language Modeling

This Lab is due Friday, Mar 7, 2025 at 11:59PM.

Introduction

The goal of this lab is to introduce you to fitting a character level language model to data and generating text from it. You will expand your toolkit to the use of Keras for fitting neural networks.

Here are some learning objectives for this lab:

Properly handle text data for language modeling
Train an LSTM character level language model
Implement two approaches to language generation

There are 3 parts to this lab. The table below highlights what you are expected to do in each part.

Part	Description	Write code?	Write responses?
1	Preprocess data	Yes	No
2	Fitting model to the data	No	Yes
3	Implement two approaches to generation	Yes	Yes

Provided Files

Lab5.ipynb
pride-and-prejudice.txt, the text of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.
pride_model.keras, a pretrained model

Work through Lab5.ipynb with your partner(s). Then submit Lab5.ipynb with the cell outputs saved to Gradescope.