News
- Jan 6: Welcome all the students! Wish you enjoy our NLP course and have a splendid semester!
Information
- Lectures
- Thursday, 10:30AM-1:15PM, Tsang Shiu Tim Bldg 104
- Tutorials
- Tuesday, 5:30PM-6:15PM, William M W Mong Eng Bldg 804
- Instructor
- Prof. Liwei WANG
- Teaching Assistant
- Ziyuan HU Azim OSPANOV
- Announcement
- All updates will be sent to your emails. Please check your university emails.
- Grading
- Assignments + Paper Presentation + Project Report & Presentation
Tutorial sessions would be the fastest and clearest way to discuss any problem. You are also welcomed to send emails to the instructor and the TAs.
Lectures
All related lecture materials will be posted on Blackboard → Lecture Notes.
The following schedule (tentative) are subject to minor modifications.
Lecture slide cannot be distributed outside the class.
| Week | Date | Topic | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jan 9 | Intro & Basic Knowledge about NLP | |
| 2 | Jan 16 | Language Basics and Neural Network Basics | |
| 3 | Jan 23 | From Word Vectors to Embeddings | |
| 4 | Feb 6 | Language Models part 1 | The week after Lunar New Year Complete team forming for projects Assign selected paper to each team |
| 5 | Feb 13 | Language Models part 2 | |
| 6 | Feb 20 | Scaling Law | Release of Assignment 1 |
| 7 | Feb 27 | Midterm Presentation (1) | Submission of Presentation Slides Submission of Assignment 1 |
| 8 | Mar 6 | Midterm Presentation (2) Pre-training and Post-training |
Release of Assignment 2 Release of Final Project |
| 9 | Mar 13 | Adaptation | Submission of Assignment 2 |
| 10 | Mar 20 | Language + Vision | Release of Assignment 3 |
| 11 | Mar 27 | Evaluations | Submission of Assignment 3 |
| 12 | Apr 3 | Frontiers Topics in NLP | |
| 13 | Apr 10 | Final Projects Presentation (1) | |
| 14 | Apr 17 | Final Projects Presentation (2) | Submission of Presentation Slides Submission of Project Report |
Assignments (45%)
- Individual-based Assignments (15% for each)
- Format
- Submission
There will be three assignments (Question Sets or Coding) in total. All assignments must be done independently by yourself.
You are encouraged to either typeset your solution in LaTeX or Word, or scan or take photos of your handwritten solution (please bundle your scans/photos into a single PDF file)
If there is no coding involved, please submit your answers as a single PDF file. Otherwise, please compress the PDF file with related codes into a ZIP file. The PDF file should be accepted by VeriGuide before submission. All the submissions should be made via Blackboard by 11:59pm
Medium Paper Presentation (15%)
- One Group-based Paper Presentation.
- More details will be released later.
Final Project Report & Presentation (40%)
- One Group-based Project Representation.
- One Group-based Project Report.
- More details will be released later.
Course Policy
- Academic Honesty Policy
- Submission Policy
- Late Submission Policy
- Late by less than 12 hours -- deducted by 20%
- Late by 12 to 24 hours -- deducted by 40%
- Late by 24 to 36 hours -- deducted by 60%
- Late by 36 to 48 hours -- deducted by 80%
- Submissions that are late by more than 48 hours will not be accepted.
The Chinese University of Hong Kong places very high importance on honesty in academic work submitted by students, and adopts a policy of zero tolerance on academic dishonesty.
All submissions (e.g., assignments) should be processed by VeriGuide first.
Assignments, reports, and presentation slides cannot be plagiarized from the Internet.
The use of AI tools (e.g., Chat-GPT) is allowed for assistance, but must be explicitly acknowledged.
For all the submissions (e.g., assignments), late submission are subject to score deduction: