Catalog Description: This course provides a hands-on introduction to language technologies, covering methods for processing speech and text. This includes: statistical models, early neural models, and transformer-based LLMs; model architectures, training, evaluation, and social impacts; core tasks and methods like machine translation, parsing, and prompting; analysis and representation of speech and speech recognition models. Weekly assignments provide practical experience in building systems and understanding their strengths and limitations.

Units: 4

Also Offered As: EECS 183

Prerequisites: COMPSCI C182, COMPSCI 188, or COMPSCI 189

Credit Restrictions: Students will receive no credit for EECS 183 after completing COMPSCI 288.

Formats:
Fall: 3.0 hours of lecture and 1.0 hours of discussion per week
Spring: 3.0 hours of lecture and 1.0 hours of discussion per week

Grading Basis: Default Letter Grade; P/NP Option

Final Exam Status: Yes

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Class Schedule (Fall 2026):
EECS 183/283A – MoWe 15:30-16:59, The Gateway Building 1210 – Alane Suhr, Gopala Krishna Anumanchipalli

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