CMU 11-711: Advanced NLP
Graham Neubig's NLP course — solid coverage from classical NLP through modern LLM training and evaluation.
Course site: http://phontron.com/class/anlp2024/.
Watching this in parallel with the deep-learning course because the two reinforce each other: the DL course gives me the optimization plumbing, this one gives me what to actually do with it on language. Neubig is also good at flagging which papers are load-bearing vs. trend-of-the-moment.