NLP-ML Syllabus

Syllabus CSE 4095 Spring 2025

Instructor: John A. Iacovacci

john.iacovacci@uconn.edu; 

Cell Phone: 917-701-6177

Lectures Tuesdays -  6:35 PM - 7:45 PM Room DWTN 239         

Office Hours Remote: Upon request


Our Class Website https://uconn-sa.blogspot.com/


CSE 4095 Special Topics in Computer Science and Engineering -

Sentiment Analysis

Description

This course explores sentiment analysis of English text.

The inputs can be from financial news, broader news, and other sources.

The systems we will use include a number of NLP sentiment analysis

libraries including

BERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers) systems.

Learning objectives

Get working knowledge of implementing sentiment analysis using NLP libraries.

Develop skills for understanding the workings of sentiment analysis systems.

Class work

Students will be required to provide weekly status reports and hit monthly

milestones.


Work will revolve around

1. Setting up sentiment analysis engines in Python

2. Getting data to validate sentiment analysis

3. Correlating sentiment to other actions or activities

4. Extending BERT or other NLP models



Each weekly report will correspond to a grade for the week.


Reports and monthly milestones will be discussed and agreed upon in class.



General Requirements & Expectations


1. Attendance: Students are expected to attend all lectures. Attendance will be taken. 



2. Make sure you check your UCONN.EDU e-mail account regularly, or have it

forwarded to an account that you use regularly. Otherwise you may miss important

announcements.




Academic Honesty

Students should refer to the Student Code (see section on Academic Integrity -

http://www.dos.uconn.edu/student_code.html) for specific guidelines.

Students with Disabilities

Students with disabilities who believe they may need accommodations in this

class are encouraged

to contact the Center for Students with Disabilities (486-2020) as soon as

possible to better ensure that such accommodations are implemented in a

timely fashion.


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