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Important
All deadline and due dates in this course will be at AoE time zone. For all dates used in this course, their times are 23:59 Anywhere on Earth (11:59 pm AoE). For example, a due date of “January 8” is the same as “January 8, 23:59pm AoE”. Convert the times to your local times using a Time Zone Converter.

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Week	Dates	Topics	Homework	Quizzes	Readings
1	1/8 - 1/12	Course introduction Text data preprocessing: Normalization, lemmatization, stemming, stop words removal…
2	1/15 - 1/19	MLK Official Institute Holiday Text Representations: One hot encoding BoW (frequency counting) TF-IDF		Quiz 0 \| Knowledge-based \| out 1/12 - due 1/19
3	1/22 - 1/26	Classification Introduction Naive Bayes Classification Model Evaluation: accuracy, precision, recall, confusion matrix	HW1 out 1/26	Quiz 1 \| week 1 and 2\| out 1/19 - due 1/26
4	1/29 - 2/02	Focus on HW1		Quiz 2 \| week 3\| out 1/26 - due 2/02
5	2/05 - 2/09	Logistic Regression SVM Perceptron	HW1 due 2/09 HW2 out 2/09
6	2/12 - 2/16	SVD (Dimensionality Reduction) + Co-occurrence embeddings Glove		Quiz 3 \| week 5\| out 2/09 - due 2/16	GloVe: Global Vectors for Word Representation
7	2/19 - 2/23	Focus on HW2
8	2/26 - 3/01	Neural Network (fully connected) Word2vec: CBoW, Skip-Gram	HW2 due 3/01 HW3 out 3/01	Quiz 4 \| week 6\| out 2/23 - due 3/01	NN Playground Interactive NN initialization; The role of a hidden layer; Back propagation numerical example; More detailed introduction; Efficient Estimation of Word Representations in Vector Space
9	3/04 - 3/08	CNN RNN		Quiz 5 \| week 8\| out 3/01 - due 3/08	CNN Live Demo; A guide to an efficient way to build CNN and optimize its hyper-parameters; Back Propagation in CNN; Transfer learning in CNN;
10	3/11 - 3/15	LSTM and GRU LSTM + Attention (Focus on Attention mechanism)		Quiz 6 \| week 9\| out 3/08 - due 3/15
11	3/18 - 3/22	Spring Break
12	3/25 - 3/29	Transformer models Examples: BERT(Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers) and GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer)	HW3 due 3/29 HW4 out 3/29	Quiz 7 \| week 10\| out 3/15 - due 3/29	Attention Is All You Need; BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding;
13	4/01 - 4/05	Sequence Labelling: POS Tagging Sequence Labelling: NER		Quiz 8 \| week 12\| out 3/29 - due 4/05
14	4/08 - 4/12	Unsupervised Models Topic Modeling (Latent Semantic Indexing, LDA (Latent Dirichlet Allocation)		Quiz 9 \| week 13\| out 4/05 - due 4/12
15	4/15 - 4/19	Focus on HW 4	HW4 due 04/22	Quiz 10 \| week 14 \| out 4/12 - due 4/19