COE4212804  - Introduction to Natural Language Processing - Spring 2026

Course Info:

Natural language processing (NLP) is a crucial technology in the era of information age. Exciting advancements in natural language processing (NLP) have recently emerged, enabling systems that can perform tasks such as text translation, question answering, and spoken conversations. This course aims to provide students with a foundational understanding of NLP, including standard frameworks, algorithms, and techniques used to solve various NLP problems. The curriculum will cover topics like language modeling, representation learning, text classification, sequence tagging, syntactic parsing, machine translation, and question answering, with a particular focus on recent deep learning approaches. Through this course, students will receive a comprehensive introduction to NLP concepts, methods, algorithms, applications and state-of-the-art methods research in deep learning for NLP.