January 2023
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Week 1 
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What is NLP?

Read 2.2-2.5
and MaxMatch

HW (due Jan 13)


Monday Schedule
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Probability Review

Read 1.4-1.7
(handout)

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15

Week 2 
16

MLK Day
17

Lab 1: Hashtag Segmentation
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Ngrams and Language Models

Read 3.0-3.1

HW (due 23rd)

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22

Week 3 
23

Smoothing Language Models

Read 3.4-3.5

24

Lab 2: Email Recovery
25 26 27

Smoothing Continued

HW (due 30th)

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29

Week 4 
30

Naive Bayes and Features

Read 4.1-4.3,4.6

31

lab continued
       

February 2023
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
      1 2 3

Logistic Regression

Read 5-5.4,5.6

HW (due Feb 6)

4
5

Week 5 
6

LMs+Classification Recap

good-turing notes

7

Lab 3: Author Identification
8 9 10

Sentiment and Language

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

11
12

Week 6 
13

Sentiment Contd.

Read 21-21.6

14

lab continued
15 16 17

6 Week Exam
18
19

Week 7 
20

Washington's BDay
21

Lab 4: Twitter Sentiment
22 23 24

Exam Review
Words as Vectors
Read 6.1-6.4,6.7
25
26

Week 8 
27

Words as Vectors (continued)
28

lab continued
       

March 2023
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
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Word2Vec

Read 7-7.3

HW (due Monday)

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5

Week 9 
6

Neural NLP

Read 9-9.4

HW (due 10th)

7

Lab 5: Word2Vec

sample program

Word2Vec
Read 6.8-6.10

Project Released

8 9 10

Transformer Networks
Read: Illustrated Transformer

Project Proposals Due

11
12

 
13

Spring Break
14

Spring Break
15

Spring Break
16

Spring Break
17

Spring Break
18
19

Week 10 
20

Neural Exercises
21

Lab 6: BERT Clustering
22 23 24

Intro to Syntax

Read 8-8.2

HW (due 27th)

25
26

Week 11 
27

Syntax Continued

Read 17-17.3

HW (print, due Mar 31)

28

Final Project Work

Project Datasets Due
(upload)

29 30 31

Review Day

study questions

 

April 2023
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
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2

Week 12 
3

12 Week Exam
4

Lab 7: PCFG Intro

CFGs to PCFGs

Read 14.1

Project Progress Report
(submit)

5 6 7

CKY Algorithm

Read 17.4-17.6

HW and HW2
(due 10th)

8
9

Week 13 
10

CKY Eval & Practice

Read 17.8

HW (due 14th)

11

Lab 8: CKY Parser
12 13 14

Advanced Parsing
15
16

Week 14 
17

Parsing Wrapup

HW (due 22nd)

18

lab continued
CKY Milestone Due

Project Progress Report
(submit)

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Information Extraction
22
23

Week 15 
24

Today's LLMs
25

Final Project Work
26 27 28

Reference Resolution

Project Progress Report
(submit)

29
30

Week 16 
           

May 2023
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
  1

Where does NLP go from here?

Exam Topics

2

Project Presentations
3

Last Day of Classes

Projects Due

Project Writeups Due

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Final Exam @ 1300
HP107
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Graduation
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