Date | In-Class Topic | Assignment Due |
24. Jan | Introducing the Course and
Linguistic Concepts |
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Lecture:
Administrivia:
Readings:
Optional Readings:
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29. Jan | Where AI/NLP is today | |
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Lecture:
Optional Review:
Administrivia:
Readings:
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Wed 31. Jan | Workshop: Python/Homework Environment | |
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Fri 2. Feb | Homework Due | Warmup: Who was President |
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5. Feb | Information Retrieval / tf-idf | |
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Wed 7. Feb | Workshop: tf-idf | |
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Fri 9. Feb | Homework Due | tf-idf |
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Mon 12. Feb | Logistic Regression | |
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Wed 14. Feb | Workshop: SGD | |
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Fri 16. Feb | Homework
Due | Logistic Regression |
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Mon 19. Feb | Project/Homework Framework | |
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Lectures:
Optional Videos:
Optional Videos of our Past 470 Finals:
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Wed 18. Feb | Workshop: Feature Engineering | |
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Mon 26. Feb | Distributional Semantics |
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Wed 28. Feb | Workshop: Wordvectors | |
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Fri 1. Mar | Homework
Due | Feature Engineering |
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Mon 4. Mar | Syntax |
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Lecture:
Readings:
- SNLP Chapter 8 (more important), 18 (less important)
Optional Lectures (won't be on the exam or in homeworks):
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Wed 6. Mar | Workshop: What Makes a Good Question? | |
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Fri 8. Mar | Homework
Due | tf-idf Guesser |
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Mon 11. Mar | Neural Networks for Language | |
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Readings:
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Wed 13. Mar | Workshop: Pytorch | |
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Fri 15. Mar | Homework
Due | Adversarial QA |
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17-24. March | Spring Break | |
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Mon 25. Mar | Sequence Models | |
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Lecture:
Reading: SNLP 9
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Wed 27. Mar | Workshop: BiLSTM Classification | |
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Fri 29. Mar | Project Due | Proposal |
Mon 1. April | Midterm Review | |
Wed 3. April | Midterm | |
Mon 8. Apr | Midterm Makeup / Eclipse (Only for Documented Absences) | |
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Wed 10. April | Transformers | |
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Lecture:
Readings:
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Mon 15. April | Alignment and Fine-Tuning | |
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Lecture:
Readings:
Optional:
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Wed 17. April | Workshop: Fine-Tuning | |
Fri 19. Apr | Homework Due | Neural
Models for Text |
Mon 22. April | QA Datasets | |
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Readings:
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Wed 24. Apr | Workshop: Project Management (Slurm,
managing goals, etc.) | |
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Fri 26. Apr | Project Due | Milestone 1 |
Mon 29. Apr | QA Methods | |
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Lecture:
Reading: MRC Literature Review
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Wed 1. May | Workshop: QA Systems | |
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Fri 3. May | Project | Milestone 2 |
Mon 6. May | Machine Translation | |
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Lecture:
Reading: MRC Literature Review
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Wed 8. May | Odds and Ends | |
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Fri 10. May | Optional Extra Credit | Fact
Retention Study Fine-tuning |
Tue 14. May | 1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.: Final Showdown: Systems vs. Questions | |