Natural Language Processing

UVA CS 6770 (Fall 2025)

Schedule

Dates Topics Slides Note
Aug. 26, Aug. 28 Introduction, Slides No class on Aug. 28; Homework 00
Sep. 2, Sep. 4 Text classification I Slides Demo Code
Sep. 9, Sep. 11 Text Classification I, Language Modeling Slides Demo Code
Sep. 16, Sep. 18 Language Modeling: n-gram LMs, Text Classification II: Neural Network Classifiers Slides Homework 01
Sep. 23, Sep. 25 Word embeddings: LSA Slides  
Sep. 30, Oct. 2 Word embeddings: Word2vec    
Oct. 7, Oct. 9 Language modeling: Neural LMs    
Oct. 16 Statistical machine translation   Oct. 14: Reading Day
Oct. 21, Oct. 23 Sequence-to-sequence Models, Text Generation    
Oct. 28, Oct. 30 Transformers, GPT, and BERT    
Nov. 4, Nov. 6     EMNLP 2025; No class
Nov. 11, Nov. 13 Parameter-efficient Fine-tuning, Instruction Tuning    
Nov. 18, Nov. 20 In-context Learning, LLM Practice    
Nov. 25 LLMs for Agentic AI   Nov. 27: Thanksgiving Recess
Dec. 2, Dec. 4 NLP Applications: AI for Science    
Dec. 9      

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