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EECS 183/283A

Natural Language Processing

Fall 2025

Announcement

Aug 22 ·
  • Lectures: Tues/Thurs 3:30–5pm in Valley Life Sciences 2050
  • Instructor office hours: Tues/Thurs 5-5:30pm in Valley Life Sciences 2050
  • GSI office hours: Monday 4-5pm, Tuesday 9-10am, Wednesday 9-10am on Zoom (link on Ed)
  • Edstem link (only accessible to Berkeley accounts): https://edstem.org/us/join/nDkqFH
  • Student enrollment form (due September 2): https://forms.gle/wXX6EMWDf4ntvuHp9
  • FAQ
  • This schedule is tentative.

Schedule

August 28IntroductionWhat is NLP? | Logistics
September 2LinguisticsTasks, data, evaluation
September 4LinguisticsSpeech; tokens and types; word embeddings
September 9LinguisticsSyntax; semantics
September 11LinguisticsDialogue, conversation, and interaction
September 16Sequence ModelingMultilinguality; LM objectives; evaluation; count-based LMs
September 18Sequence ModelingFF language models; text classification
September 23Sequence ModelingTagging; HMMs; decoding
September 25Sequence Modeling 
September 30Sequence Modeling 
October 2Sequence Modeling 
October 7Sequence Modeling 
October 9Speech Modeling 
October 14MIDTERM EXAM 
October 16Speech Modeling 
October 21Speech Modeling 
October 23Speech Modeling 
October 28Structure Modeling 
October 30Structure Modeling 
November 4Modern LLM recipe 
November 6Modern LLM recipe 
November 11Modern LLM recipe 
November 13Modern LLM recipe 
November 18Modern LLM recipe 
November 20Modern LLM recipe 
November 25Using Language Technology 
November 27Using Language Technology 
December 2Using Language Technology 
December 4Using Language Technology 
December 19FINAL EXAM