Natural Language Processing
Fall 2023
Announcement
- Lectures: Tues/Thurs 11am–12:30pm
- GSI Office Hours: 4-5pm Wednesday and 9:30-10:30am Friday, on Zoom (see Edstem for link)
- Professor Office Hours: 12:30-1pm after lecture, in the courtyard outside Morgan 101
- Edstem link (only accessible to Berkeley accounts): https://edstem.org/us/join/BfhEtz – contains links to bCourses, Gradescope, Kaggle, etc.
- This schedule is tentative, as are all assignment release dates and deadlines.
Schedule
- August 24
- Introduction
- Project 1 released
- August 29
- Language modeling Statistical models
- August 31
- Language modeling Representation learning and early neural models
- Sept 5
- Language modeling Neural models
- Sept 7
- Language modeling Recurrence
- Project 2 released
- Project 1 due EOD Monday, September 11
- Project 2 released
- Sept 12
- Language modeling Machine translation: neural approaches
- New enrollments are processed
- Sept 14
- Language modeling Machine translation: neural approaches pt.2
- Sept 19
- Language modeling Transformers
- Sept 21
- Core NLP tasks, data, and evaluation
- Sept 26
- Panel: philosophy of evaluation and data
- Sept 28
- Structured prediction Syntactic parsing
- Project 2 due EOD
- Project 3 released
- Project 2 due EOD
- Oct 3
- Structured prediction Syntactic parsing
- Oct 5
- Structured prediction Compositional semantics
- Oct 10
- Structured prediction Language to other structured representations
- Oct 12
- LLMs Data + pretraining
- Oct 17
- LLMs Architectures
- Oct 19
- LLMs Compute + scaling + efficiency
- Project 3 due EOD
- Project 4 released
- Project 3 due EOD
- Oct 24
- LLMs Adaptation + RLHF
- Oct 26
- Beyond text Speech
- Oct 31
- Beyond text Speech
- Nov 2
- Beyond text Pragmatics
- Nov 7
- Beyond text Vision and language
- Nov 9
- Beyond text Embodied interactive agents
- Project 4 due EOD
- Project 5 released
- Project 4 due EOD
- Nov 14
- Panel: misuse / risk / harm in building language technologies
- Nov 16
- Panel: misuse / risk / harm in deploying language technologies
- Nov 21
- Panel: limitations of current systems
- Nov 23
- HOLIDAY
- Nov 28
- Panel: NLP beyond English and text
- Nov 30
- Panel: future of NLP
- Project 5 due EOD