Topics in Explainable Natural Language Processing

CS 810A - Spring 2025

Course Overview

Location
Howe 104
Time
Thursdays 3:30 - 6pm
Instructor
Zining Zhu
Office Hours
Thursday 1-3:30 PM at GN414 or by appointment

Nowadays the advance in the capabilities of NLP technologies lead to elevated concerns. Where do their capabilities emerge from the parameters and structures? How do they leverage the knowledge to make decisions? This seminar course introduces the most popular topics and tools that researchers use to understand the NLP system’s capabilities along multiple analysis levels. In this course, students will read, present and discuss papers from top conferences. Students will also gain hands-on experience in a project that explains an NLP system.

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Course Objectives

This course familiarizes students with the emerging challenges and the advancements in Explainable NLP. By the end of this semester, students should be able to:

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