Course description
Welcome to Natural Language Processing!
This webpage will be the main portal for the course. We will link to lecture slides and extra resources in our timetable below. Additionally:
- PDF of slides and optional tutorial materials: available on Scientia
- Announcements and questions/answers/discussions: on Ed
Lectures
Lectures are held every Monday and Thursday. Monday lectures are 14:00 - 16:00. Thursday lectures are 11:00 - 12:00. Lectures start from Week 2 onwards (from 13th Jan) . These will be held at Huxley 308.
Lab
The lab sessions will be held on Thursdays 12:00-13:00 from Weeks 2 to 8 (inclusive). These will be held at Huxley 202, 206, 210, 219, 221, 225.
The lab sessions are for you to work on your coursework and the optional lab exercises. Tutorial helpers will be available to support you and help you with any queries.
Lab Exercises can be found here
Coursework
There is one coursework assignment for this module. We will announce more information in due time.
Course plan
| Week | Date | Lecture | Lecturer | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | - | - | - | - |
| 2 | 13-Jan-25 | Introduction, Logistics, Word Representation | Chiraag + Nihir | |
| 2 | 16-Jan-25 | Word Representation | Nihir | |
| 3 | 20-Jan-25 | Classification | Joe | |
| 3 | 23-Jan-25 | Language Models | Joe | |
| 4 | 27-Jan-25 | Language Modelling | Joe | |
| 4 | 30-Jan-25 | Byte-pair Encoding, Machine Translation | Nihir | |
| 5 | 3-Feb-25 | Machine Translation | Nihir | |
| 5 | 6-Feb-25 | Transformers | Nihir | |
| 6 | 10-Feb-25 | Transformers | Nihir | |
| 6 | 13-Feb-25 | Contextual Word Embedding, Pre-training, LLM | Marek | |
| 7 | 17-Feb-25 | LLM. Pre-training. Fine-tuning. | Marek | |
| 7 | 20-Feb-25 | TF-IDF, extra material | Chiraag | |
| 8 | 24-Feb-25 | POS Tagging | Nuri | |
| 8 | 27-Feb-25 | Dependency Parsing | Nuri | |
| 9 | 3-Mar-25 | Exam Prep. Revision. Q&A. | All | |
| 9 | 6-Mar-25 | Exam Prep. Revision. Q&A. | All |
