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

• Course Syllabus

Course Schedule

• Please note that the course schedule below may be subject to change

Week	Date	Lecture	Tutorial	Materials	Events
1	Jan 8	Introduction to Linguistics & IT	Demonstrating NLP tasks and applications	[Tutorial Slides]
2	Jan 15	Language Data and NLP Fundamentals	Tokenization, word frequency analysis, and edit distance	[Tutorial Slides] and
3	Jan 22	Understanding “Simple” Language Modeling	Probability, n-gram, and perplexity	[Tutorial Slides] and
4	N/A	No class: Lunar New Year	N/A
5	Feb 05	Machine Learning Fundamentals	Machine learning basics	[Tutorial Slides] and
6	Feb 12	Machine Learning Fundamentals	Machine learning basics II	[Tutorial Slides] and
7	Feb 19	Word Meaning and Embeddings	Word meaning and embeddings	[Tutorial Slides] and
8	Feb 26	Large Language Models I	Prompting large language models	[Tutorial Slides]
9	N/A	No class: Reading week	N/A
10	Mar 12	Large Language Models II	TBD	Midterm	Midterm: In class
11	Mar 19	Parsing and Linguistic Structure Analysis	NLP for linguistic analysis	[Tutorial Slides] and
12	Mar 26	Corpus analysis (Prof. Mai Ziyin’s team) (focus on speech recognition and corpus analysis for language learners and children’s corpus)	TBD
13	Apr 2	Text Classification, Sentiment Analysis, and Information Extraction	Text Classification and Information Extraction	[Tutorial Slides] and
14	Apr 9	Machine Translation and Text-to-Speech Tools and Models	Machine Translation, Speech Synthesis, and Multimodality	[Tutorial Slides]
15	Apr 16	Real-World Applications: Personalized AI Assistants	Prompting, Agents, and Human-Computer Interaction	[Tutorial Slides]	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