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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 ModelingStructured Prediction
October 30Structure ModelingStructured Prediction II
November 4Modern LLM recipeLLM Recap
November 6Modern LLM recipeLLM Pre-training
November 11Modern LLM recipeLLM Post-training
November 13Modern LLM recipeLLM Post-training
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