@inproceedings{paniv-makovska-2026-bridging-applied,
    title = "Bridging Applied Experience and Research Contexts in {U}krainian {NLP} Education",
    author = "Paniv, Yurii  and
      Makovska, Viktoriia",
    editor = {A{\ss}enmacher, Matthias  and
      Biester, Laura  and
      Borg, Claudia  and
      Kov{\'a}cs, Gy{\"o}rgy  and
      Mieskes, Margot  and
      Serrano, Sofia},
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Teaching Natural Language Processing ({T}each{NLP} 2026)",
    month = mar,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Rabat, Morocco",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-eacl/2026.teachingnlp-1.12/",
    pages = "78--83",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-375-3",
    abstract = "We 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."
}