Bridging Applied Experience and Research Contexts in Ukrainian NLP Education
Abstract
AbstractWe present an open, bachelor-level Natural Language Processing (NLP) course developed at Ukrainian Catholic University and delivered in Ukrainian. The course addresses several challenges in NLP education: adapting predominantly English-centric materials to a different linguistic and cultural context, supporting students with heterogeneous technical backgrounds, and balancing foundational theory with industry-relevant skills. All course materials, including lecture slides, notebooks, video recordings, and assignments, are publicly available. We describe our pedagogical design choices, focusing on culturally adapted tasks, integrated ethics, project-based assessment, and continuous student feedback. Our experience demonstrates that it is feasible to build a comprehensive and modern NLP curriculum from scratch in a non-English context, even when instructors come primarily from industry backgrounds.