Schedule

Event

Date

Description

Course Material
Lecture

08/26/2025
Tuesday

1. Introduction, Word vectors
[slides]
Lecture

08/28/2025
Thursday

2. Lab 1 Python intro
[slides] [code]
Lecture

09/02/2025
Tuesday

3. 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
Lecture

09/04/2025
Thursday

4. Lab 2 Word vectors
[slides] [code]
Lecture

09/09/2025
Tuesday

5. Neural Network
[slides]
Suggested Readings:
- SLP, Chapter 6
Lecture

09/11/2025
Thursday

6. Lab 3 Training perceptrons, PyTorch tutorial
[slides] [code]
More Information:
- Numpy
- PyTorch
Lecture

09/16/2025
Tuesday

7. 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
Assignment

09/16/2025
Tuesday

1. Background research brief released!

[1. Background research brief]
Lecture

09/18/2025
Thursday

8. Lab 4 Building dependency parser 1
[slides] [code]
Lecture

09/23/2025
Tuesday

9. Language model, RNN
[slides]
Suggested Readings:
- SLP, Chapter 3
- SLP, Chapter 13
Lecture

09/25/2025
Thursday

10. Lab 5 Building dependency parser 2
[slides] [shared thoughts] [code]
Lecture

09/30/2025
Tuesday

11. LSTM
[slides]
Suggested Readings:
- SLP, Chapter 13
Lecture

10/02/2025
Thursday

12. Machine translation
[slides]
Suggested Readings:
- SLP, Chapter 12
Lecture

10/07/2025
Tuesday

13. Attention
[slides]
Suggested Readings:
- SLP, Chapter 8.1
Assignment

10/09/2025
Thursday

2. Final project proposal released!

[2. Final project proposal]
Due

10/10/2025 23:59
Friday

1. Background research brief
No class

10/14/2025
Tuesday

Fall break
Quiz

10/16/2025
Thursday

Midterm Quiz (No lecture)

See the last slide from Oct. 7, 2025, for details!
Lecture

10/21/2025
Tuesday

14. Transformer
[slides]
Suggested Readings:
- SLP, Chapter 8
- Vaswani et al. (2017). Attention is all you need
Lecture

10/23/2025
Thursday

15. Lab 6 Intro to HuggingFace
[slides] [code]
Lecture

10/28/2025
Tuesday

16. LLMs in 2025
[slides] [shared deck]
Link:
- Recorded Workshop
Lecture

10/30/2025
Thursday

17. Lab 7 Intro to Ollama
[slides]
Lecture

11/04/2025
Tuesday

18. Final project discussion
[slides]
Assignment

11/04/2025
Tuesday

3. Assignment released!

[3. Assignment]
Assignment

11/04/2025
Tuesday

4. Final paper released!

[4. Final paper]
Presentation

11/06/2025
Thursday

Student presentation 1, 2

Background research presentation slides can be found in Project
Due

11/07/2025 23:59
Friday

2. Final project proposal
Presentation

11/11/2025
Tuesday

Student presentation 3, 4

Background research presentation slides can be found in Project
Presentation

11/13/2025
Thursday

Student presentation 5, 6

Background research presentation slides can be found in Project
Presentation

11/18/2025
Tuesday

Student presentation 7, 8

Background research presentation slides can be found in Project
After presentation guidelines can be found here
Presentation

11/20/2025
Thursday

Student presentation 9

Background research presentation slides can be found in Project
Assignment guidelines can be found here
Due

11/21/2025 23:59
Friday

3. Assignment
Presentation

11/25/2025
Tuesday

Final presentation 1, 2, 3

Final presentation slides can be found in Project.
No class

11/27/2025
Thursday

Thanksgiving break
Presentation

12/02/2025
Tuesday

Final presentation 4, 5, 6

Final presentation slides can be found in Project.
Presentation

12/04/2025
Thursday

Final presentation 7, 8, 9

Final presentation slides can be found in Project.
The final assignment is the Final Paper. Details on this page.
No class

12/09/2025
Tuesday

Reading/Writing day
Due

12/11/2025 23:59
Thursday

4. Final paper