Schedule is tentative. Check regularly for updates. Readings beginning with “E” are from Eisenstein’s Natural Language Processing, while readings beginning with “JM” are from Jurafsky and Martin’s Speech and Language Processing.
| DATE | TOPIC | READINGS | ASSIGNMENT | LINKS |
| 1/14 | Two Cultures of Linguistics | E1 | ||
| 1/17 | Two Cultures of Linguistics (Part 2) and Logistic Regression | E2.1-2.2;4.1;4.3-4.4; JM4 | ||
| 1/24 | Logistic Regression (Part 2) | E2.5-2.7; JM5 | HW1 Out | |
| 1/28 | Logistic Regression (Part 3) 1 2 | |||
| 1/31 | Evaluation; and Perceptrons: 1 (old 1 2) | E2.3-2.4;2.8 | ||
| 2/4 | Structured Prediction 1 2 (old) | |||
| 2/7 | Multilayer Perceptrons 1 | E3.1-3.3; JM7;E7.1-7.5 | ||
| 2/11 | Multilayer Perceptrons (Part 2) | JM6;E6.1-6.2;6.4-6.5; JM3 | HW1 Due | |
| 2/14 | Multilayer Perceptrons (Part 3) | |||
| 2/25 | Distributional Semantics 1 | |||
| 2/28 | No Class (Watch Recording) | |||
| 3/4 | Syntax 1 | |||
| 3/7 | Quiz 1 | |||
| 3/11 | Parsing | Earley slides | |||
| 3/14 | Parsing | CKY slides | |||
| 3/18 | Parsing | 1 2 | |||
| 3/21 | Dependency Parsing | slides | |||
| 3/25 | Dependency Parsing | |||
| 3/28 | Neural Dependency Parsing | E9.2; JM18 (Optional: JM17; C) | ||
| 4/1 | RNNs | slides | JM19 | ||
| 4/4 | RNNs and Transformers | slides | JM8 | ||
| 4/8 | Transformers | slides 2 | JM9 | ||
| 4/11 | LLMs | slides | JM10 | ||
| 4/22 | Prompting | 1 2 3 LLM Parameter Count | JM11; JM12 | ||
| 4/25 | Human Preference and Scaling Laws (RLHF) | slides | |||
| 4/29 | Quiz 2 |