LING3401 Linguistics and Information Technology (Spring 2025)

Undergraduate course, Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2025

Meeting time and location

  • Lecture: Wednesday 14:30-16:15, Lee Shau Kee Building 302
  • Tutorial: Wednesday 16:30-17:15, Lee Shau Kee Building 302

Teaching staff

  • Instructor: Prof. Gangyi Feng
    • Email: g.feng[at]cuhk.edu.hk
    • Office hours: Thursday 15:30-17:00 or by appointment, at G09 Leung Kau Kui Building or 401 Hui Yeung Shing Building
  • Teaching Assistant: Yige Chen

Course Syllabus

Course Schedule

  • Please note that the course schedule below may be subject to change
WeekDateLectureTutorialMaterialsEvents
1Jan 8Introduction to Linguistics & ITDemonstrating NLP tasks and applications[Tutorial Slides] 
2Jan 15Language Data and NLP FundamentalsTokenization, word frequency analysis, and edit distance[Tutorial Slides] and Open In Colab  
3Jan 22Understanding “Simple” Language ModelingProbability, n-gram, and perplexity[Tutorial Slides] and Open In Colab  
4N/ANo class: Lunar New YearN/A  
5Feb 05Machine Learning FundamentalsMachine learning basics[Tutorial Slides] and Open In Colab  
6Feb 12Word Meaning and EmbeddingsTBD  
7Feb 19Large Language ModelsTBD  
8Feb 26Parsing and Linguistic Structure AnalysisMidterm Midterm: In class
9N/ANo class: Reading weekN/A  
10Mar 12Text Classification & Sentiment AnalysisTBD  
11Mar 19Information ExtractionTBD  
12Mar 26Corpus analysis (Prof. Mai Ziyin’s team) (focus on speech recognition and corpus analysis for language learners and children’s corpus)TBD  
13Apr 2Real-world Applications: building a simultaneous interpreter?TBD  
14Apr 9Real-World Applications: Personal AI AssistantsTBD  
15Apr 16Ethics and Bias in Language TechnologyFinal Exam Final Exam: In class