2025-Fall ST: Intro. to Natural Language Process (CSED490E-01) The course syllabus

1.Course Information

Course No. CSED490E Section 01 Credit 3.00
Category Major elective Course Type prerequisites
Postechian Core Competence
Hours TUE, THU / 11:00 ~ 12:15 / Hogil Kim Bldg[301]Lecture Room Grading Scale G

2. Instructor Information

Kim Hyounghun Name Kim Hyounghun Department Grad. School of AI
Email address imhkim@postech.ac.kr Homepage
Office Office Phone
Office Hours

3. Course Objectives

- Course Overview: This course covers the basic and applications of natural language processing.
- Educational Objectives: This course provides students with opportunities to explore the fundamental concepts of natural language processing (NLP) technologies and gain hands-on project experience. After completing the course, students are expected to have both a theoretical and practical foundation in NLP.

4. Prerequisites & require

5. Grading

(*Tentative) Exams(60%), Quiz(5%), Assignment(20%), Project(15%)

6. Course Materials

Title Author Publisher Publication
Year/Edition		 ISBN
- Lecture slides 0000

7. Course References

- Speech and Language Processing (3rd ed. draft)

8. Course Plan

(*Tentative Schedule)
Week 1: Introduction
Week 2: Regular Expressions, Tokenization, Edit Distance
Week 3: N-gram Language Model
Week 4: Naive Bayes, Text Classification, and Sentiment
Week 5: Logistic Regression
Week 6: Vector Semantics and Embeddings
Week 7: Neural Networks
Week 8: Midterm Exam
Week 9: RNNs and LSTMs
Week 10: Transformers
Week 11: Large Language Models
Week 12: Masked Language Models
Week 13: Model Alignment, Prompting, and In-Context Learning
Week 14: NLP Applications
Week 15: Project Presentation
Week 16: Final Exam

9. Course Operation

- Lecture Type: Offline
- Teaching Methods: Theoretical lectures, coding practice, team projects.

10. How to Teach & Remark

11. Supports for Students with a Disability

- Taking Course: interpreting services (for hearing impairment), Mobility and preferential seating assistances (for developmental disability), Note taking(for all kinds of disabilities) and etc.

- Taking Exam: Extended exam period (for all kinds of disabilities, if needed), Magnified exam papers (for sight disability), and etc.

- Please contact Center for Students with Disabilities (279-2434) for additional assistance

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