Week 1
- Aug 25
- Introduction, Applications
- E 1, Probabilities (refresher only)
- HW0 out (due 8/29)
- paper selection out (due 9/8)
- project assignment out (due 9/22)
- Aug 27
- Aug 29
- HW0 due
Week 2
- Sep 1
- LABOR DAY NO CLASS
- HW1 out (due 9/19)
- Sep 3
- Linear Classifiers
- E 2.2, 2.3, 2.4. JM 4, app. B, Thumbs up? Sentiment Classification using Machine Learning Techniques, Goldwater probability tutorial. The Perceptron (Rosenblatt 1958) (optional)
Week 3
- Sep 8
- Sep 10
- Sep 12
- Early Drop (no W, refund)
Week 4
- Sep 15
- N-Gram Language Models, Feed Forward and Recurrent Language Models (RNNs)
- E 6.1–2, 6.4. 7.5, 7.7. JM 3, 13 Exploring the limits of language modeling LM notebook
- Sep 17
- Sep 19
- HW1 due
Week 5
- Sep 22
- Pretrained language models (ELMo, BERT, and sentence similarity)
- JM 10 ELMo paper BERT paper Zoph Fine-Tuning paper Fine-Tuning demo
project proposal due
- Sep 24
- NO CLASS
Week 6
Week 7
- Oct 6
- Efficient Inference
- Oct 8
- MEGA (Guest Lecture by Xuezhe Ma)
- Mega Paper Megalodon
- Oct 10
- Mid Drop (No W, No refund)
Week 8
- Oct 13
- Agents (Guest Lecture by Tenghao Huang)
- WebArena, ToolLLM, Narrative Discourse, ReAct
- Oct 15
- Ethics (Guest Lecture by Katy Felkner)
- The Social Impact of Natural Language Processing, Energy and Policy Considerations for Deep Learning in NLP, Model Cards for Model Reporting
- Oct 17
- HW 2 due
Week 9
- Oct 22
- Machine Translation (MT)/Multilinguality slides1 slides2
- JM12 Weaver, Translation (1952)
Week 10
- Oct 27
- Dialogue
- JM 25, Appendix K
- HW3 out (due 11/21)
- Oct 29
- Information Extraction
- JM17.3, 20
Week 11
- Nov 3
- Multimodal NLP (Guest Lecture by Xuezhe Ma)
- Nov 5
- Spoken Language Processing (SLP) (Guest Lecture by Sudarsana Reddy Kadiri)
- JM 15
Week 12
- Nov 10
- Mind Reading (Guest Lecture by Sam Nastase)
- Nov 12
- TBD (Guest Lecture by Robin Jia)
- -
- Nov 14
- Late Drop (W, No refund)
Week 13
Week 14
- Nov 24
- TBD Guest Lecture
- Nov 26
- THANKSGIVING BREAK; NO CLASS
Week 15
- Dec 1
- Project Presentations
- (10:00) TBD
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(10:22) TBD
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(10:44) TBD
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(11:06) TBD
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(11:28) TBD
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- Dec 4
- Project presentations
- (10:00) TBD
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(10:22) TBD
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(10:44) TBD
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(11:06) TBD
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(11:28) TBD
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