Schedule
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EventDateDescriptionCourse Material
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Lecture08/26/2025
Tuesday1. Introduction, Word vectors[slides] -
Lecture08/28/2025
Thursday -
Lecture09/02/2025
Tuesday3. Word vectors[slides]Suggested Readings:
- SLP, Chapter 5, Chapter I
- Mikolov et al. (2013). Efficient Estimation of Word Representations in Vector Space
- Pennington, Socher, & Manning (2014). GloVe: Global Vectors for Word Representation
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Lecture09/04/2025
Thursday -
Lecture09/09/2025
Tuesday5. Neural Network[slides]Suggested Readings:
- SLP, Chapter 6
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Lecture09/11/2025
Thursday -
Lecture09/16/2025
Tuesday7. Dependency Parsing[slides]Suggested Readings:
- SLP, Chapter 19
- Nivre et al. (2006). MaltParser: A Data-Driven Parser-Generator for Dependency Parsing
- Chen & Manning (2014). A fast and accurate dependency parser using neural networks
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Assignment09/16/2025
Tuesday1. Background research brief released! -
Lecture09/18/2025
Thursday -
Lecture09/23/2025
Tuesday9. Language model, RNN[slides]Suggested Readings:
- SLP, Chapter 3
- SLP, Chapter 13
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Lecture09/25/2025
Thursday10. Lab 5 Building dependency parser 2 -
Lecture09/30/2025
Tuesday11. LSTM[slides]Suggested Readings:
- SLP, Chapter 13
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Lecture10/02/2025
Thursday12. Machine translation[slides]Suggested Readings:
- SLP, Chapter 12
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Lecture10/07/2025
Tuesday13. Attention[slides]Suggested Readings:
- SLP, Chapter 8.1
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Assignment10/09/2025
Thursday2. Final project proposal released! -
Due10/10/2025 23:59
Friday1. Background research brief -
No class10/14/2025
TuesdayFall break -
Quiz10/16/2025
ThursdayMidterm Quiz (No lecture)See the last slide from Oct. 7, 2025, for details!
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Lecture10/21/2025
Tuesday14. Transformer[slides]Suggested Readings:
- SLP, Chapter 8
- Vaswani et al. (2017). Attention is all you need
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Lecture10/23/2025
Thursday -
Lecture10/28/2025
Tuesday16. LLMs in 2025[slides] [shared deck]Link:
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Lecture10/30/2025
Thursday17. Lab 7 Intro to Ollama[slides] -
Lecture11/04/2025
Tuesday18. Final project discussion[slides] -
Assignment11/04/2025
Tuesday3. Assignment released! -
Assignment11/04/2025
Tuesday4. Final paper released! -
Presentation11/06/2025
ThursdayStudent presentation 1, 2Background research presentation slides can be found in Project
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Due11/07/2025 23:59
Friday2. Final project proposal -
Presentation11/11/2025
TuesdayStudent presentation 3, 4Background research presentation slides can be found in Project
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Presentation11/13/2025
ThursdayStudent presentation 5, 6Background research presentation slides can be found in Project
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Presentation11/18/2025
TuesdayStudent presentation 7, 8 -
Presentation11/20/2025
ThursdayStudent presentation 9 -
Due11/21/2025 23:59
Friday3. Assignment -
Presentation11/25/2025
TuesdayFinal presentation 1, 2, 3Final presentation slides can be found in Project.
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No class11/27/2025
ThursdayThanksgiving break -
Presentation12/02/2025
TuesdayFinal presentation 4, 5, 6Final presentation slides can be found in Project.
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Presentation12/04/2025
ThursdayFinal presentation 7, 8, 9 -
No class12/09/2025
TuesdayReading/Writing day -
Due12/11/2025 23:59
Thursday4. Final paper
