Natural Language Processing

Spring 2022

Announcement

Lectures: Tues/Thurs 11am–12:30pm
Professor and GSI office hours: to be determined!
This schedule is tentative, as are all assignment release dates and deadlines.

Lectures

Jan 18

Introduction I (1up) (6up)

Jan 20

Introduction II

Jan 25

Language Modeling (1up) (6up)

J&M 3

Jan 27

Language Modeling

E 3.0-3.3; J&M 6; G 1-5

Feb 1

Language Modeling

J&M 7; Goldberg 10-11

Feb 3

Machine Translation (1up) (6up)

J&M 10

HW1 Due (Feb 4, 5PM)

Feb 8

Machine Translation

J&M2 25

Feb 10

Machine Translation

Feb 15

Machine Translation

Feb 17

Retrieval and Question Answering (1up)

Feb 22

Transformers (Nikita Kitaev) (1up)

HW2 Due (Feb 23, 5pm)

Feb 24

Parsing (1up) (6up)

J&M 13

Mar 1

Parsing

Mar 3

Parsing

Mar 8

Neural Parsing (1up) (4up)

Mar 10

Speech (1up) (4up)

J&M 26

Mar 15

Speech

HW3 Due (Mar 16, 11:59pm)

Mar 17

Speech

Mar 29

Speech

Mar 31

Semantics (1up) (4up)

Apr 5

Semantics

HW4 Due (Apr 15, 11:59pm)

Apr 7

Pragmatics (Nicholas Tomlin) (1up) (4up)

Apr 12

Grounding and Vision (Rodolfo Corona) (1up) (4up)

Apr 14

Robustness and Security (Eric Wallace)

Apr 19

Dialog

Apr 21

Fairness in NLP (Rediet Abebe and Eve Fleisig) (1up)

HW5 Due (Apr 24, 11:59pm)

Apr 26

Special Topics: Language Reconstruction, Crossword Solving, and Silent Speech

Apr 28

Panel: The Future of NLP

HW6 Due (May 6, 11:59pm)