August 2024
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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 22)

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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 
26

Ngrams and Language Models

Read 3.0-3.1

HW (due 28th)

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Smoothing Language Models

Read 3.5-3.6

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Lab 2: Email Recovery
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September 2024
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
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Week 3 
2

Labor Day
3

Smoothing Continued

HW (due 4th)


Monday Schedule
4

Naive Bayes and Features

Read 4.1-4.3,4.6

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lab continued
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Week 4 
9

Logistic Regression

Read 5-5.4,5.6

HW (due 11th)

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LMs+Classification Recap

good-turing notes

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Lab 3: Author Identification
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Week 5 
16

Sentiment and Language

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

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Sentiment Contd.

Read 21-21.6

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lab continued
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Week 6 
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6 Week Exam
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Exam Recap
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Lab 4: Twitter Sentiment
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Week 7 
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Words as Vectors

Read 6.1-6.4,6.7

         

October 2024
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Word2Vec

Read 6.8

HW (read 7-7.3)

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lab continued
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Week 8 
7

Neural NLP

HW (due 9th)

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RNNs
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Lab 5: Word2Vec

sample program

Project Released

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Week 9 
14

Columbus Day
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Transformer Networks
Read: Illustrated Transformer

Read 9-9.4

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Lab 6: BERT Clustering

Project Proposals Due

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Week 10 
21

Neural Exercises
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LLM Prompting

HW (due 28th)

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Final Project Work

Project Datasets Due
(upload)

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Week 11 
28

Review Day

study questions
solutions

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12 Week Exam
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Lab 7: LLM-mini
   

November 2024
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Week 12 
4

Intro to Syntax

Read 17-17.2

HW

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Syntax Continued

Read 18-18.3

HW (due 14th)

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CKY Algorithm

Read 18.6

HW (due 14th)

Project Progress Report
(submit)

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Week 13 
11

Veterans Day
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Final Project Work

HW (due 14th)

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Lab 8: Tagging and Chunking

Project Progress Report
(submit)

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Week 14 
18

CKY Eval & Practice

Read 18.8

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Parsing Wrapup
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Final Project Work

Project Progress Report
(submit)

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Week 15 
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Information Extraction
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No Classes
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Thanksgiving
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No Classes
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December 2024
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Week 16 
2

Today's LLMs
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Guest Lecture:
Machine Translation
5

Project Presentations
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Week 17 
9

Where does NLP go from here?

Exam Topics


Projects Due
Project Writeups Due

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Optional Review @ 1500
HP107
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Final Exam @ 0830
HP123/125
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