NLP-RR: Schedule for Semester 1 | Open Course Materials

This schedule is being updated for 2025-26!

Week	Date	Room	Lecturer	Subject	Reading	Coursework
1	Mon 15 Sep	Appleton Tower 2.06	Lai, Allaway, Zeller	Course Overview	Bird, S. Must NLP be Extractive?
2	Mon 22 Sep	AT 2.06	Zeller	Quantitative & Qualitative Research Methods	Guba, E. G. Chapter 2: Quantitative, Qualitative, and Mixed Research.
3	Mon 29 Sep	AT 2.11	Allaway	What makes an NLP paper?
4	Mon 6 Oct	AT 2.06	Vines, Zeller	What makes a HCI paper?		10/10/25 Coursework 1 issued (peer-review exercise)
5	Mon 13 Oct	Medical School, Teviot - Teaching Room 12 - Doorway 3	Vines, Osborne	Intro to the Individual Exploratory Project / Public Engagement
6	Mon 20 Oct	AT 2.06	Allaway	Replication, Reproducibility and Generalisation and Reviewing in NLP	Storks et al., NLP Reproducibility For All: Understanding Experiences of Beginners
7	Mon 27 Oct	AT 2.11	Moruzzi	From philosophy to design
8	Mon 3 Nov	AT 2.06	Birch-Mayne, Zeller	Research Ethics and the Informatics ethics review process		7/11/25 Coursework 1 due 12:00 (submit on Learn)
9	Mon 10 Nov	Medical School, Teviot - Teaching Room 12 - Doorway 3	Lai	Assignment 1 presentations/discussion
10	Mon 17 Nov	AT 2.06	Lai, Zeller, Allaway	~~IEP project discussion~~ Cancelled due to UCU strike	Scientific writing: proposals slides from Frank Keller (2024)	17/11/25: Coursework 2 issued (IEP proposal)