Instructor
Semester
Credits
10
Schedule
Tue 13:00–16:00, Hargrove Hall 412
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CS420 Natural Language Processing is a core course of the MSc Artificial Intelligence, taught by Dr. Kenji Tanaka. Students build tokenisers, train and fine-tune language models, study retrieval-augmented generation, and critically evaluate model behaviour across languages.

The course runs in Spring 2027 and is worth 10 credits. It meets Tue 13:00–16:00, Hargrove Hall 412. Assessment is by a research project presented in May 2027.

What you will learn

  • Build tokenisers and evaluate language models
  • Fine-tune pretrained models for new tasks
  • Design retrieval-augmented generation pipelines
  • Critique model behaviour across languages