August 2025
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Week 1 
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What is NLP?

Read 2.2-2.5,2.8
and MaxMatch

HW (due Aug 21)

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Probability Review

Read 1.4-1.7
(handout)

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Lab 1: Hashtag Segmentation
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Week 2 
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Ngrams and Language Models

Read 3.0-3.1

HW (due 27th)

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Smoothing Language Models

Read 3.5-3.6

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Lab 2: Email Recovery
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Week 3 
           

September 2025
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
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Labor Day
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Smoothing Continued

HW (due 5th upload here)

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lab continued
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Week 4 
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Naive Bayes and Features

HW (due 10th)

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Logistic Regression

Read 4.1-4.4

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Lab 3: Author Identification
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Week 5 
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LMs+Classification Recap

good-turing notes

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Sentiment and Language

Sentiment Paper
(Read pg 1-6)
Quiz on reading Mon.

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lab continued
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Week 6 
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Sentiment Contd.

Read 21-21.6

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6 Week Exam
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Lab 4: Twitter Sentiment
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Week 7 
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Exam Recap
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October 2025
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CLASS CANCELED
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(optional) lab continued
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Week 8 
6

CLASS CANCELED
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CLASS CANCELED

shutdown hw due

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LECTURE:
Words as Vectors

Read 5-5.4

TWITTER LAB STILL DUE TODAY

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Week 9 
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Columbus Day
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Word2Vec

Read 5.5

HW (due 20th)

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Lab 5: Word2Vec

Lecture: Neural NLP

Read 6.1,6.3,6.4

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Week 10 

Project Proposals Due
Project Home
Submit Proposal

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Work on Lab
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RNNs

HW (due 27th)

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Work on Final Projects
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Week 11 

Project Datasets Due
(upload)

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Transformer Networks
Read: Illustrated Transformer

Read 8-8.1

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Review Day
Neural Exercises

study questions
solutions

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Lab 6: BERT Clustering

12w Exam

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November 2025
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Week 12 
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LLM Prompting

HW for Lab

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Today's LLMs

Read 9-9.1

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Lab 7: Hands-on LLM

Project Progress Report 1
(submit)

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Week 13 
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Intro to Syntax

Read 17-17.2

HW (due 12th)

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Veterans Day
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Syntax Continued

Read 18-18.3

HW (due 13th)

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CKY Algorithm

Read 18.6

HW (due 19th)


Project Progress Report 2
(submit)

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Week 14 
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Guest Lecture:
Machine Translation
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CKY Eval & Practice

Read 18.8

HW (due 24th)

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Lab 8: Tagging and Chunking

Project Progress Report 3
(submit)

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Week 15 
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Final Project Work
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No Classes
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Thanksgiving
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No Classes
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Week 16 
           

December 2025
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Parsing Wrapup
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Fine-Tuning and RL

Read 9.1-9.3

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The NLP Future
...and project time
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Week 17 
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Project Presentations!
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Exam Review


Projects Due
Project Writeups Due


Wednesday Schedule
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Final Exam @ 0755
Rickover 110
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