Qualitative Coding of Software Engineering Artifacts, Case Study Research, Natural Language Processing Pipeline,  Information Extraction and Classification, Clustering, Supervised Machine Learning, Quantitative Evaluation of NLP and ML Techniques, Deep Learning, Word Embeddings, Transformers, Prompt Engineering.

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Lecture Plan

September 6: 

• Orientation (Introduction and Practical Matters)

September 13:

• Empirical Software Engineering (Case Studies, Qualitative Methods)

• Background Reading:

  • Experimentation in Software Engineering (Chapter 2: Empirical Strategies)

  • Guidelines for conducting and reporting case study research in software engineering

  • The Coding Manual for Qualitative Researchers (Chapter 1: An Introduction to Codes and Coding)

September 20:

• Empirical Software Engineering (Quantitative Methods)

• Background Reading: 

  • • Experimentation in Software Engineering (Chapter 10: Analysis and Interpretation)

September 27:

• No class (Prof. away at a conference)

October 4:

• Natural Language Processing Pipeline

October 11:

• Clustering

  • Background  Reading:

    • Chapter 7 (Cluster Analysis: Basic Concepts and Algorithms) from Introduction to Data Mining (2nd Ed.)

October 18:

• Reading Week (No class)

October 25:

• Machine Learning (A Whirlwind Tour, Input, Output)

• Background Reading:

  • • • Chapters 1-4 of Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques

November  1:

• Deep Learning (Part 1) - Guest Lecture by Mo H. Amini

November 8:

• Deep Learning  (Part 2) - Guest Lecture by Mo H. Amini

• Evaluation of Machine Learning Techniques

• Background  Reading:

• • • Chapters 5 of Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques

November 15:

• Prompt Engineering

November 22:

• Seminars

  • Schedule to be announced.

November 29:

• Seminars

  • Schedule to be announced.