CS 5/662, Winter 2021

Schedule

Week Day Subject Assigned Deliverable
1: Preliminaries Wed Jan 6 Introductory Session

HW1

  Fri Jan 8 Count-based Language Modeling
2: Text Classification Wed Jan 13 Text Classification: Algorithms & Methods

HW2

HW1

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  Fri Jan 15 Text Classification: Applications & Evaluation
3: Practical Foundations Wed Jan 20 Designing NLP experiments, Writing & Publishing
  Fri Jan 22 Word Embeddings & Representations

HW2

4: Neural Methods Wed Jan 27 Neural Methods in NLP; Neural LMs

HW3

Project Proposal

  Fri Jan 29 In-class PyTorch Lab
5: Projects & Guests! Wed Feb 3 Project Proposal Presentations
  Fri Feb 5 Guest Lecture: Ameeta Agrawal

HW3

6: Sequences & Tagging Wed Feb 10 Sequence Labeling

HW4

  Fri Feb 12 Text Normalization
7: Grammars & Parsing Wed Feb 17 Context-free Grammars

HW5

HW4

  Fri Feb 19 Parsing Algorithms

Project Checkin

8: Machine Translation Wed Feb 24 MT: History, Evaluation, Impacts

HW6

HW5

  Fri Feb 26 Classical Statistical MT
9: More MT & Applications Wed Mar 3 Neural Approaches to MT

HW7

  Fri Mar 5 Applications: Biomedical NLP

HW6

10: Capturing Context Wed Mar 10 Guest Speaker: Kendra Chalkley
  Fri Mar 12 CWEs, Sentences & Documents

HW7

11: Final Presentations Wed Mar 17 Final Presentations A
  Fri Mar 19 Final Presentations B

Final writeup

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