Graduate Natural Language Processing (INST 735 / CMSC 723 / LING 723)

Logistics

Location Iribe 0318
Time Mon./Wed. 15:30pm - 16:45pm
Webpage http://umiacs.umd.edu/~jbg/teaching/CMSC_723/
Mailing List http://piazza.com/umd/fall2022/cmscling723inst723/home
Text Speech and Language Processing
Homework Submission Gradescope
Syllabus https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HjiQeO5O5ga3o29T2wkJZFMRU3ofSS_htSgCnVGjARI/edit?usp=sharing

People

Professors

Jordan Boyd-Graber
Office Hours (Iribe 4146)

Teaching Assistants

Schedule

Date In-Class Topic Assignment Due
Monday, 26. August 2024
 What the class is about
Readings
  • Speech and Language Processing Chapter 1
Topics
  • What is the course about? (jbg)
  • Structure of the course (nhf)
  • Discussion of co-teaching / pedagogy / delivery (jbg)
  • Linguistic Background (nhf)
  • Programming Background (jbg)
  • Math Background (nhf)
Optional Readings (Background) Math Review
Wednesday, 28. August 2024
 What's a sentence, morepheme, type, token, word, etc.
Friday, 30. August 2024
 Homework Due Limerick
Monday, 02. September 2024
 Speech representation
Wednesday, 04. September 2024
 Classical language models
Monday, 09. September 2024
 Classical speech recognition
Wednesday, 11. September 2024
 Classification and evaluation
Friday, 13. September 2024
 Homework Due Bigram Language Model
Monday, 16. September 2024
 Pytorch and Logistic Regression
Wednesday, 18. September 2024
 Learning word representations
Friday, 20. September 2024
 Homework Due Classical ASR
Monday, 23. September 2024
 Linear neural language models
Wednesday, 25. September 2024
 Transformers
Friday, 27. September 2024
 Homework Due Feature Engineering
Monday, 30. September 2024
 Muppet Models
Wednesday, 02. October 2024
 Fine-tuning
Friday, 04. October 2024 [Rosh Hashana]
 Homework Due DAN
Monday, 07. October 2024
 Neural ASR
Wednesday, 09. October 2024
 Prompting
Friday, 11. October 2024
 Homework Due Fine Tuning
Monday, 14. October 2024
 Syntax: PCFGs
Wednesday, 16. October 2024
 Syntax: Dependency Grammars
Friday, 18. October 2024 [Succos]
 Homework Due Neural ASR
Monday, 21. October 2024 [Succos]
 Semantics
Wednesday, 23. October 2024 [Succos]
 Midterm Review
Monday, 28. October 2024
 Midterm
Wednesday, 30. October 2024
 Coreference
Friday, 01. November 2024
 Homework Due Project Proposal
Monday, 04. November 2024
 Machine translation
Wednesday, 06. November 2024
 Cognitive
Friday, 08. November 2024 [Shavuos]
 Homework Due Syntax
Monday, 11. November 2024
 Reviewing
Wednesday, 13. November 2024
 Question Answering
Friday, 15. November 2024
 Homework Due Paper Review
Monday, 18. November 2024
 Multimodal
Wednesday, 20. November 2024
 Annotation
Friday, 22. November 2024
 Homework Due Project Deliverable
Monday, 25. November 2024
 Writing a Paper
Wednesday, 27. November 2024
 Computational Social Science
Wednesday, 27. November 2024
 Thanksgiving
Monday, 02. December 2024
 Dialog
Wednesday, 04. December 2024
 Careers in NLP / AUA
Friday, 06. December 2024
 Homework Due Poster
Monday, 09. December 2024
 Poster Day