Schedule

Lecture

Lectures: TTh 9:30am - 10:50am, WCH room 143 

Discussion: W 11:00 - 11:50 am, Student Success Center | Room 121 

Week 1:  Introduction & Regular Expressions 

Week 2: N-gram Language models (Part I, Part II) [HW1 released]

Week 3: Naive Bayes & Sentiment Analysis [HW1 Due April 21st, Sunday]

Week 4: Evaluation, Midterm 1 April 23rd  [HW2 released]

Week 5: Logistic Regression & Stochastic Gradient Descent [HW2 Due, Sunday]

Week 6: Word Embeddings & Word2vec [Class over Zoom due to safety precaution]

Week 7: Neural Language Models & Midterm 2, Midterm 2 May 16th Thursday, [HW3 Due, Sunday]

Week 8: RNNs & Attention, Tuesday class cancelled with Zoom recordings [Part 1 recordings, Part 2], Thursday in-person class

Week 9: Transformers & Pretrained Language Models [HW4 Due, Sunday]

Week 10: In context learning & Instruction tuning &RLHF

Tutorials 

Discussion: W 11:00 - 11:50 am, Student Success Center | Room 121 

week 1:  NLTK and SpaCy

week 2: Regex

week 3: HW1 Q&A (midterm 1 will be similar)

week 4: N-gram

week 5: Naive Bayes

week 6: Logistic Regression 

week 7: Practice midterm 2

week 8: Midterm 2 solution Q&A