| 11-731 Machine Translation: Schedule Spring - 2009 |
| Date | Topic | Who | Readings | Slides | Comments |
| M 1/12 | Overview, Schedule, Requirements | ||||
| W 1/14 | Language Divergences, MT Challenges | Lavie | Additional Reading | ppt | Homework1 is out |
| M 1/19 | Martin Luther King Day - No Class | ||||
| W 1/21 | Principles of MT Research | Lavie | ppt | ||
| M 1/26 | Components of an SMT System | Vogel | Additional Reading | ppt | Homework2-Part1 is out |
| W 1/28 | Data for MT, Analysis, Preprocessing | Vogel | Homework2-Part2 is out | ||
| M 2/2 | Word Alignment Models (IBM model 1, 2, EM) | Vogel | Additional Reading | ppt | |
| W 2/4 | Word Alignment Models (HMM, IBM3, IBM4) | Vogel | Additional Reading | ppt | Homework3 is out |
| M 2/9 | Phrase Alignment | Vogel | Additional Reading | ppt | |
| W 2/11 | Hierarchical Alignment | Vogel | Additional Reading | ppt | Homework4 is out |
| M 2/16 | Syntax-based Word Alignment | Lavie | Additional Reading | ppt | |
| W 2/18 | Distortion Models | Vogel | ppt | Homework5 is out
Homework2-Part1 Solution is out |
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| M 2/23 | Language Models - Postponed | Vogel | |||
| W 2/25 | Automatic MT Evaluation | Lavie | Additional Reading | ppt | |
| M 3/2 | Human MT Evaluation | Lavie | ppt | ||
| W 3/4 | Mid Term Exam (Closed Book) | ||||
| 3/9-13 | Spring Break - No Class | ||||
| M 3/16 | Phrase-based Decoding: The Basics | Vogel | Additional Reading | ppt | |
| W 3/18 | Phrase-based Decoding: The Not So Basic | Vogel | ppt | Homework6 is out | |
| M 3/23 | Chart-based Decoding | Vogel | Additional Reading | ppt | |
| W 3/25 | Minimum Error Rate Training | Vogel | Additional Reading | ppt | Homework7 is out |
| M 3/30 | Language Models | Vogel | Additional Reading | ppt | |
| W 4/1 | Discriminative Word Alignment | Vogel | ppt | Homework8 is out | |
| M 4/6 | Case Study: Speech-to-Speech Translation | Black | |||
| W 4/8 | Case Study: Example-based MT | Brown | Homework9 is out | ||
| M 4/13 | Case Study: Interlingua-based MT | Levin | Part-1
Part-2 |
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| W 4/15 | System Combination | Lavie | ppt | Homework10 is out | |
| M 4/20 | Low Resource MT | Lavie | ppt | ||
| W 4/22 | Exploiting Comparable Corpora for MT | Sanjika | |||
| M 4/27 | Factored Models | Vogel | ppt | ||
| W 4/29 | MBR Decoding/Future MT Directions | Vogel | ppt | ||
| Th 5/7 | Final Exam 1:00-4:00p.m. in Wean 5403 | ||||