Materials
Lecture notes, slides, and other relevant materials will be posted here weekly.
| Week | Dates | Topic | Slides Link | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Week 0 | 2026-07-17 | Introduction | Slides | |
| Week 1 | 2026-07-22 | History + What is NLP | Slides | |
| 2026-07-23 | What is NLP | Slides | ||
| 2026-07-24 | Why is NLP Hard? | Slides | ||
| Week 2 | 2026-07-29 | Text Processing | Slides | Jurafsky and Martin's book on NLP (Speech+NLP) |
| 2026-07-30 | Text Processing | Slides | ||
| 2026-07-31 | Language Modelling | Slides | ||
| Week 3 | 2026-08-05 | LM Eval and Smoothing | Slides | NLTK Notebook |
| 2026-08-06 | Smoothing + POS Tagging Intro | Slides | ||
| 2026-08-07 | Smoothing + POS Tagging Intro | Slides | ||
| Week 4 | 2026-08-12 | HMMs and POS Tagging | Slides | |
| 2026-08-13 | HMMs and POS Tagging | Slides | ||
| 2026-08-14 | Syntactic and Dep. Parsing | Slides | ||
| Week 5 | 2026-08-19 | CKY Parsing | Slides | |
| 2026-08-20 | Dependency Parsing |
PCFG Slides Dep. Parsing |
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| 2026-08-21 | Dependency Parsing | Slides | ||
| Week 6 | 2026-08-27 | Distributional Semantics | Slides | |
| 2026-08-28 | Distributional Semantics | Slides | ||
| Week 7 | 2026-09-02 | Logical and Distributional semantics | Slides | |
| 2026-09-03 | Logical and Distributional semantics | Slides | ||
| Week 8 | 2026-09-09 | Sequential Models - RNNs | Slides | |
| 2026-09-10 | RNN-Backpropagartion | Slides | ||
| 2026-09-11 | Advanced RNN's | Slides | ||
| Week 9 | 2026-09-16 | Seq-to-Seq Attention | Slides | |
| Week 10 | 2026-10-07 | Transformer | Slides | Reference |
| 2026-10-08 | Transformer (Part 2) | Slides | Reference | |
| Week 11 | 2026-10-14 | Pretraining and LLMs | To Be Added | |
| 2026-10-15 | Pretraining and LLMs | To Be Added | ||
| 2026-10-16 | Pretraining and LLMs | To Be Added | ||
| Week 13 | 2026-10-28 | RLHF | To Be Added | |
| 2026-10-29 | RLHF | To Be Added | ||
| 2026-10-30 | PPO, DPO | To Be Added | ||
| Week 14 | 2026-11-04 | GRPO, ORPO | To Be Added | |
| 2026-11-05 | GRPO, ORPO | To Be Added | ||
| 2026-11-06 | Reasoning Models | To Be Added |