FNLP: Course Schedule & Materials
Week-by-week Overview and Deadlines
Below is the schedule for the 2025-26 offering of FNLP. Every Friday, we will publish a summary of the next week's content, including lecture slides, required readings, post-lecture quizzes, and the tutorial or lab for that week.
Lecture recordings must be accessed via Learn, which is linked above the Navigation pane to the right.
| Week | Theme | Labs | Tutorials | Coursework |
| W1 | Introduction to Natural Language Processing | Lab 0 | ||
| W2 | Text Classification and Neural Network Basics | Tutorial 1 | ||
| W3 | Neural Networks and Distributional Semantics | Lab 1 | ||
| W4 | Word Embeddings and Language Models | Tutorial 2 | ||
| W5 | Neural Language Models, Sequence-to-Sequence Models, and Machine Translation | Lab 2 |
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| Flex Week | No Class Activities | |||
| W6 | Transformers | Tutorial 3 | Released | |
| W7 | LLMs: Transfer Learning, Prompting, and Scaling | Lab 3 | ||
| W8 | NLP Meets the Real World: Ethical and Social Risks of LLMs | Tutorial 4 | ||
| W9 | Linguistic Challenges in NLP | Lab 4 | Due (12:00 Thursday) | |
| W10 | Wrap-up and QA | Tutorial 5 |
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