FNLP: Course Schedule
Week-by-week Overview and Deadlines
The schedule below is for last year's (2024-25) offering of FNLP. The topics for the 2025-26 offering will be similar, but may differ in content and order. The pattern of lab and tutorial exercises will be as shown; the schedule for the coursework is not yet determined.
| Week | Theme | Labs | Tutorials | Assignment |
| W1 | Introduction to Natural Language Processing | Lab 0 | ||
| W2 | Text Classification and Neural Network Basics | Tutorial 1 | ||
| W3 | Neural Networks, Distributional Semantics | Lab 1 | ||
| W4 | Word Embeddings and Language Models | Tutorial 2 | ||
| W5 | Sequence-to-Sequence Models and Neural Machine Translation | Lab 2 |
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| Flex Week | No Class Activities | |||
| W6 | Transformers and BERT | Tutorial 3 | ||
| W7 | Prompting, Few-shot learning, and Instruction Tuning | Lab 3 | ||
| W8 | Alignment, Ethical Issues, and Back to where we started | Tutorial 4 | ||
| W9 | Linguistic tasks | Lab 4 | ||
| W10 | Wrap-up and QA | Tutorial 5 |
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