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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
  • FAQ
  • This schedule is tentative.

Schedule

August 28IntroductionWhat is NLP? | Logistics
September 2LinguisticsTasks, data, evaluation
September 4LinguisticsSpeech; tokens and types; lexical semantics
September 9LinguisticsWord embeddings; syntax
September 11LinguisticsSentence-level semantics | Dialogue, conversation, and interaction
September 16Sequence ModelingMultilinguality | Sequence modeling
September 18Sequence ModelingSequence generation | N-gram language models
September 23Sequence ModelingNeural Sequence Modelling | Sequence encoding and text classification
September 25Sequence ModelingSequence-to-Sequence Modelling
September 30Sequence ModelingAttention
October 2Sequence ModelingTransformer
October 7Speech ModelingSpeech Preliminaries
October 9Speech ModelingSpeech Recognition
October 14MIDTERM EXAMNO CLASS
October 16Speech ModelingSelf-Supervised Learning for Speech
October 21Speech ModelingText-to-Speech Synthesis
October 23Speech ModelingNeural TTS + Spoken LM
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