COSC 426A/LA: Natural Language Processing (Fall 2024)

Description and Goals

Language is an amazing and intricate human capacity and building computational systems that process human language (Natural Language Processing; NLP) has widespread applications: both practical (e.g., searching the internet, virtual assistants, chatbots, autocorrect, translation systems, audio captioning, and hate speech detectors) and scientific (e.g., as models of the human mind). Coursework has three interrelated goals. First, to develop the language and tools necessary for understanding, building, and evaluating NLP systems. Second, to engage in the scientific process by reading papers, replicating existing results, developing research questions and running experiments to answer these questions. Third, to critically examine the broader impact of NLP systems on society.

Organization

This website is for Section A and Lab Section A.

Important links

• Class Discord
• Course Toolkit
• Lecture Section A:
  • Lecture Syllabus
  • Lecture Schedule
  • Lecture Moodle
• Lab Section A:
  • Lab Syllabus
  • Lab Schedule
  • Lab Moodle

Lecture Meeting Times

Section	Instructor	Room	Time
426A	Forrest Davis	214 Bernstein Center	TR 9:55 AM - 11:10 AM

Lab Meeting Times

Section	Instructor	Room	Time
426LA	Forrest Davis	118 Bernstein Center	W 11:20 AM - 1:10 PM

Office hours

• Hours:
  • Tuesdays 3:30-5:00PM
  • Wednesdays 9:00-10:00AM
  • Thursdays 12:30-1:30PM
• Location: 322 Bernstein

TA Details

• TA: Matthew Shapiro
• Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays 4:00-6:00PM
• Location: 217 Bernstein (Student Lounge)