ECE365: Natural Language Processing (Logistics)

Contact Information

Instructor: Professor Suma Bhat
Office: 322 Coordinated Science Lab
Email: spbhat2 [at] illinois [dot] edu
Office Hours: By Appointment

Teaching Assistant: Wanzheng Zhu
Email: wz6 [at] illinois [dot] edu
Office Hours: Same as lab hours (4:00 PM - 7:00 PM W)

For this section of the course, we will hold online labs and office hours at: https://illinois.zoom.us/j/8243325004. You do not have to come to the lab in person but you are encouraged to do the lab and ask questions during your assigned lab hours.

Logistics

Lab Submission: Submit your completed Jupyter notebook on Compass. Follow the Jupyter notebook instructions for submission. Be sure to fill in your name + netid at the top of the lab. Do not send me the data sets!

Grading: You will have a weekly quiz on Thursdays. These quizzes are short (approximately 20 minutes) and are designed to test the concepts you have learned. The quizzes are closed-book and closed-notes. You may bring a ruler. Electronic devices (calculators, cellphones, pagers, laptops, headphones, etc.) are neither necessary nor permitted. The quizzes form 30% of your grade. No collaboration is allowed during the quizzes. The labs will form the remaining 70% of your grade. Each lab will be weighted equally. If you have a request for re-grading, the request must be submitted in writing within a week of the lab being returned to you. It should have a clear explanation of what you would like to be looked at again. Grades will be posted on Compass.

Late Policy: No Late submission will be graded this year!

There are no exceptions to these policies beyond the standard policies of the university (e.g. disability accomodations, serious illness, etc.). If you need an exception, please contact Prof. Bhat.

These policies apply only to the "Natural Language Processing" section of the course.

General References

You do not need any of the following books, but they may be useful to expand on some of the topics seen in class.

  • Dan Jurafsky, and James H. Martin. Speech and Language Processing (3rd Edition). (J&M) [link]

  • Chris Manning, and Hinrich Schutze. Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing, MIT Press. Cambridge, MA: May 1999. (M&S) [link]

  • Jacob Eisenstein. Introduction to Natural Language Processing. MIT Press. Cambridge, MA: September, 2019. (JE) [link]