Fall 2025 (Sep23-Dec9)
Faculty of Computer Science
Dalhousie University
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Fall 2025 (Sep23-Dec9) Faculty of Computer Science Dalhousie University |
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| # | Date | Title | |
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| Part I: Introduction | |||
| 1 | Tu Sep 23 | Course Introduction | |
| Part II: Stream-based Text Processing | |||
| 2 | Th Sep 25 | Sources of Complexity in NLP, Course Project, Finite Automata Review (start) | |
| L1 | Mo Sep 29 | Lab 1: FCS Computing Environment, Perl Tutorial 1 | |
| Tu Sep 30 | National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, University closed | ||
| 3 | Th Oct 2 | Finite Automata Review | |
| L2 | Mo Oct 6 | Lab 2: Perl Tutorial 2 | |
| 4 | Tu Oct 7 | Basic NLP with Perl | |
| 5 | Th Oct 9 | N-grams and Morphology | |
| Fr Oct 10 | P0 Project Topic Proposal due | ||
| Mo Oct 13 | Thanksgiving Day, University closed | ||
| 6 | Tu Oct 14 | Text Similarity and Applications | |
| 7 | Th Oct 16 | Text Classification | |
| L3 | Fr Oct 17 | Lab 3: Perl Tutorial 3 | |
| L4 | Mo Oct 20 | Lab 4: Git and GitLab Tutorial | |
| 8 | Tu Oct 21 | Similarity-based Classification | |
| Part III: Probabilistic and Machine Learning Approach to NLP | |||
| 9 | Th Oct 23 | Introduction to Probabilistic NLP | |
| L5 | Mo Oct 27 | Lab 5: Python NLTK Tutorial 1 | |
| 10 | Tu Oct 28 | Naive Bayes Model | |
| 11 | Th Oct 30 | N-gram Model and Markov Chain Model | |
| L6 | Mo Nov 3 | Lab 6: Python Tutorial 2 | |
| 12 | Tu Nov 4 | POS Tagging and Hidden Markov Model | |
| 13 | Th Nov 6 | P0 Topics Discussion | |
| Fr Nov 7 | P1 Project Statement due | ||
| Mo Nov 10 | Fall Study Break Nov 10-14, no classes, University open except Tue | ||
| Tu Nov 11 | Remembrance Day, University closed | ||
| L8 | Mo Nov 17 | Lab 8: Python Tutorial with PyTorch | |
| 14 | Tu Nov 18 | P0 Discussion (2); Bayesian Networks and HMM Inference | |
| 15 | Th Nov 20 | P0 Discussion (3); Sum-Product Algorithms | |
| L9 | Mo Nov 24 | Lab 9: Hugging Face Tutorial | |
| 16 | Tu Nov 25 | Neural Networks and NLP | |
| 17 | Th Nov 27 | Deep Learning Architectures for NLP | |
| Part IV: Syntactic Processing | |||
| 18 | Tu Dec 2 | Syntax of Natural Languages | |
| 19 | Th Dec 4 | Other Types of Grammars: PCFG, DCG | |
| Part V: Student Presentations | |||
| Mo Dec 8 | Student Presentations | ||
| Tu Dec 9 | Student Presentations | ||
| We Dec 10 | Classes end, Report due | ||
| Final Exam | |||
| Mo Dec 15 | Final Exam (8:30-10:30am) | ||