LING3401 Linguistics and Information Technology (Spring 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
  • Email: yigechen[at]link.cuhk.edu.hk
  • Office hours: Tuesday 12:00-14:00, at G19 Leung Kau Kui Building

Course Syllabus

• To be posted soon

Course Schedule

• Please note that the course schedule below is subject to change

Week	Date	Lecture	Tutorial	Materials	Events
1	Jan 8	Introduction to Linguistics & IT	Introducing NLP tasks and applications
2	Jan 15	Language Data and Text Processing	TBD
3	Jan 22	Basic Text Analysis Methods	TBD
4	N/A	No class: Lunar New Year	N/A
5	Feb 05	Understanding Language Models	TBD
6	Feb 12	Word Meaning and Embeddings	TBD
7	Feb 19	Introduction to Modern NLP Tools	TBD
8	Feb 26	Large Language Models Fundamentals	Midterm		Midterm: In class
9	N/A	No class: Reading week	N/A
10	Mar 12	Language Generation and Understanding	TBD
11	Mar 19	Text Classification and Analysis	TBD
12	Mar 26	Parsing and Structure Analysis	TBD
13	Apr 2	Information Extraction & Sentiment Analysis	TBD
14	Apr 9	Applications in Language Technology	TBD
15	Apr 16	Ethics and Bias in Language Technology	Final Exam		Final Exam: In class

Useful Links

• Google Colab
• Universal Dependencies
• Hugging Face
• Poe
• Microsoft Azure
• Speech and Language Processing (3rd ed. draft)
• Blackboard
• University policy on academic honesty
• Academic accommodations

Detailed information and materials for the course will be posted soon.