Notice: Fall 2025 will be the last occurrence of this course.

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE (may change [a bit])

(Lectures and exercises take place in room SG 0213.)

Except for weeks 1 and 10 to 14, all the other classes (weeks 2 to 9) is "flipped" and organized as follows:

When there is a quiz (weeks 5, 7, 10, 14), everything is shifted by 1 hour. (Notice, btw, the quizzes are not meant to be a preparation for the exam; exercises are; quizzes are only a feedback providing evaluation/comprehension test.)

Week 1 being a "welcome week", it starts with 2 hours of usual lecture, followed by 2 hours of introductory practical session.

Starting from week 10, Pr. Antoine Bosselut will give a series of three lectures on Modern NLP (Deep Learning). These lecture are not pre-recorded and will be taught live. The lessons will be recorded live and available some time afterwards.

Texts in bold (weekly updated) are links to the corresponding course material.

Wednesday 08h15 - 09h00 Wednesday 09h15 - 10h00 Wednesday 10h15 - 11h00 Wednesday 11h15 - 12h00
1 10/09/2025 Introduction to NLP
Linguistics Levels in Natural Language Processing (MR)
PS: Machine Translation (MR)
2 17/09/2025 Evaluation in NLP (MR):
[slides] [video] [review slides]
PS: Evaluation (MR+SM)
3 24/09/2025 Evaluation in NLP 2 (MR) Hands-on evaluation (MR) Exercises (exam preparation) & QAS/"office hours" (MR)
4 01/10/2025 Word, tokens, n-grams and Language Models (JCC) Hands-on n-grams/language models (JCC) Exercises & QAS (JCC)
5 08/10/2025 Quiz: NLP and evaluation (weeks 1-3, online, 4%) Tagging (JCC) Hands-on POS tagging (1) (JCC) Exercises + QAS (JCC)
6 15/10/2025 HMM decoding and learning (Viterbi and EM) (JCC) Hands-on POS tagging (2) (JCC) PS: PoS Tagging (JCC+SM)
-22/10/2025
Fall break
7 29/10/2025 Quiz: n-grams + Tagging (weeks 2-5, online, 4%) Textual data analysis and classification (JCC) Hands-on textual classification (JCC) Exercises + QAS (JCC)
8 05/11/2025 Vector space Semantics (and Information Retrieval) (JCC) Hands-on information retrieval (JCC) PS: Text classification (JCC+SM)
9 12/11/2025 Quiz: up to classification (weeks 1-7, online, 4%) Semantics (MR) Hands-on semantics (MR) Exercises + QAS (MR)
10 19/11/2025 Deep Learning for NLP (no pre-recording) (Pr. A. Bosselut) Transformers Attention Visualization (Pr. A. Bosselut)
11 26/11/2025 PS: Semantics with LLMs (1/2) (MR+SM)
12 03/12/2025 Generation (no pre-recording) (Pr. A. Bosselut) coding assignment (Pr. A. Bosselut)
13 10/12/2025 PS: Semantics with LLMs (2/2) (MR+SM)
14 17/12/2025 Quiz: from classification to Generation (incl.) (weeks 7-13, online, 4%) Ethics in NLP (no pre-recording) (Pr. A. Bosselut) Future of NLP (no pre-recording) (Pr. A. Bosselut)

Videos of the lectures

Annotated slides


Dernière mise à jour le 19 août 2025
Last modified: Tue Aug 19, 2025