| August 2025 | ||||||
| Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday |
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| 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 |
| 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 |
| 17 Week 1 |
18 What is NLP? Read 2.2-2.5,2.8 HW (due Aug 21) |
19 | 20 Probability Review Read 1.4-1.7 |
21 Lab 1: Hashtag Segmentation |
22 | 23 |
| 24 Week 2 |
25 Ngrams and Language Models Read 3.0-3.1 HW (due 27th) |
26 | 27 Smoothing Language Models Read 3.5-3.6 |
28 Lab 2: Email Recovery |
29 | 30 |
| 31 Week 3 |
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| September 2025 | ||||||
| Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday |
| 1 Labor Day |
2 | 3 Smoothing Continued HW (due 5th upload here) |
4 lab continued |
5 | 6 | |
| 7 Week 4 |
8 Naive Bayes and Features HW (due 10th) |
9 | 10 Logistic Regression Read 4.1-4.4 |
11 Lab 3: Author Identification |
12 | 13 |
| 14 Week 5 |
15 LMs+Classification Recap |
16 | 17 Sentiment and Language Sentiment Paper |
18 lab continued |
19 | 20 |
| 21 Week 6 |
22 Sentiment Contd. Read 21-21.6 |
23 | 24 6 Week Exam |
25 Lab 4: Twitter Sentiment |
26 | 27 |
| 28 Week 7 |
29 Exam Recap |
30 | ||||
| October 2025 | ||||||
| Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday |
| 1 CLASS CANCELED |
2 (optional) lab continued |
3 | 4 | |||
| 5 Week 8 |
6 CLASS CANCELED |
7 | 8 CLASS CANCELED |
9 LECTURE: Words as Vectors Read 5-5.4 TWITTER LAB STILL DUE TODAY |
10 | 11 |
| 12 Week 9 |
13 Columbus Day |
14 | 15 Word2Vec Read 5.5 HW (due 20th) |
16 Lab 5: Word2Vec Lecture: Neural NLP Read 6.1,6.3,6.4 |
17 | 18 |
| 19 Week 10 Project Proposals Due |
20 Work on Lab |
21 | 22 RNNs HW (due 27th) |
23 Work on Final Projects |
24 | 25 |
| 26 Week 11 Project Datasets Due |
27 Transformer Networks Read: Illustrated Transformer Read 8-8.1 |
28 | 29 Review Day Neural Exercises |
30 Lab 6: BERT Clustering 12w Exam |
31 | |
| November 2025 | ||||||
| Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday |
| 1 | ||||||
| 2 Week 12 |
3 LLM Prompting |
4 | 5 Today's LLMs Read 9-9.1 |
6 Lab 7: Hands-on LLM Project Progress Report 1 |
7 | 8 |
| 9 Week 13 |
10 Intro to Syntax Read 17-17.2 HW (due 12th) |
11 Veterans Day |
12 Syntax Continued Read 18-18.3 HW (due 13th) |
13 CKY Algorithm Read 18.6 HW (due 19th) Project Progress Report 2 |
14 | 15 |
| 16 Week 14 |
17 Guest Lecture: Machine Translation |
18 | 19 CKY Eval & Practice Read 18.8 HW (due 24th) |
20 Lab 8: Tagging and Chunking Project Progress Report 3 |
21 | 22 |
| 23 Week 15 |
24 Final Project Work |
25 | 26 No Classes |
27 Thanksgiving |
28 No Classes |
29 |
| 30 Week 16 |
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| December 2025 | ||||||
| Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday |
| 1 Parsing Wrapup |
2 | 3 Fine-Tuning and RL Read 9.1-9.3 |
4 The NLP Future ...and project time |
5 | 6 | |
| 7 Week 17 |
8 Project Presentations! |
9 Projects Due Wednesday Schedule |
10 | 11 | 12 | 13 |
| 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 Final Exam @ 0755 Rickover 110 |
18 | 19 | 20 |
| 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 |
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