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EECS 183/283A

Natural Language Processing

Fall 2026

Announcement

Aug 25 ·
  • Lectures: Mondays/Wednesdays 3:30–4:59pm in The Gateway Building 1210
  • Instructor office hours: Wednesdays 5-5:30pm in The Gateway Building 1210
  • GSI office hours: TBD
  • Midterm date and time will be announced soon.
  • Edstem link (only accessible to Berkeley accounts): https://edstem.org/us/join/RQJP23
  • FAQ
  • This schedule is tentative.

Schedule

August 26IntroductionWhat is NLP? | Logistics
August 31IntroductionTasks, data, evaluation
September 2LinguisticsSpeech; tokens and types; lexical semantics
September 9LinguisticsWord embeddings; syntax | Sentence-level semantics
September 14LinguisticsDialogue, conversation, and interaction
September 16Linguistics / Sequence ModelingMultilinguality | Sequence modeling
September 21Sequence ModelingSequence generation
September 23Sequence ModelingN-gram language models
September 28Sequence ModelingNeural Sequence Modelling
September 30Sequence ModelingSequence encoding and text classification | Sequence-to-Sequence Modelling
October 5Sequence ModelingAttention
October 7Sequence ModelingTransformer
October 12Speech ModelingSpeech Preliminaries
October 14Speech ModelingSpeech Recognition
October 19Speech ModelingSelf-Supervised Learning for Speech
October 21Speech ModelingText-to-Speech Synthesis
October 26Speech ModelingNeural TTS + Spoken LM
October 28Structure ModelingStructured Prediction
November 2Structure ModelingStructured Prediction II
November 4Modern LLM recipeLLM Recap
November 9Modern LLM recipeLLM Pre-training
November 16Modern LLM recipeLLM Post-training | LLM Post-training
November 18Modern LLM recipeEfficient Adaptation
November 23Using Language TechnologySpoken Dialog System
November 30Using Language TechnologyVision and Language
December 2Using Language TechnologyAgents and Reasoning
December 15FINAL EXAM7:00–10:00 PM