CSCI-B 659 Topics in Artificial Intelligence - Advanced Natural Language Processing

LING-L 675 dvanced Machine Learning Techniques

This is the course page for Topics in Artificial Intelligence / Advanced Machine Learning for Natural Language Processing (NLP) by Damir Cavar.

Damir Cavar

– January 2025 –

Course Arrangements

Meeting time: Tuesday and Thursday, 2:20-3:35 PM

Classroom: Ballantine Hall 121

Course website: Assignments, slides, and other material will be posted on Canvas.

Credits: 3

Instructor: Dr. Damir Cavar

Office: Ballantine Hall (BH) 511

Phone: (812) 856-5094

Office hours (BH 516): Tuesday, 1:00-2:00 PM and by appointment

Course Description

Advanced Machine Learning for CL focuses on new methods in CL based on Generative AI, Graph representations and Knowledge Graphs for semantic modeling, and Graph Neural networks. The topics discussed include also tuning of Large Language Models and LLMs with RAGs.

Coding and Computational Experiments

TBA

Schedule

This is a tentative schedule. It is subject to change. Updates and changes will be discussed in class. [JM] refers to the Jurafsky and Martin textnook.

date	topic
01/14/2025	Introduction and Orientation Meeting
01/16/2025	Introduction
01/21/2025
01/23/2025
01/28/2025
01/30/2025
02/04/2025
02/06/2025
02/11/2025
02/13/2025
02/18/2025
02/20/2025
02/25/2025
02/27/2025
03/04/2025
03/06/2025
03/11/2025
03/13/2025
03/25/2025
03/27/2025
04/01/2025
04/03/2025
04/08/2025
04/10/2025
04/15/2025
04/17/2025
04/22/2025
04/24/2025
04/29/2025	Project Presentations
05/01/2025	Project Presentations

Literature

Main textbook and literature

TBA

Additional books and articles

General Information and Notes

Participation in the NLP-Lab Projects

Students are welcome to participate in NLP-Lab meetings and projects after consultation with the instructor. See for more details: https://nlp-lab.org/

Disclaimer

This syllabus is subject to change and likely will change. All critical changes will be made in writing, with ample time for adjustment.