| Date |
Topic |
Who |
Readings |
Slides |
Comments |
| M 1/10 |
Overview, Schedule, Requirements |
Lavie |
|
ppt |
|
| W 1/12 |
Language Divergences, MT Challenges |
Lavie |
|
ppt |
Homework1 is out |
| M 1/17 |
Martin Luther King Day - No Class |
| W 1/19 |
Principles of MT Research |
Lavie |
|
ppt |
|
| M 1/24 |
SMT-Basic Ideas |
Vogel |
|
ppt |
Homework2 is out |
| W 1/26 |
Word Alignment Models (IBM model 1, 2, EM) |
Vogel |
|
ppt |
|
| M 1/31 |
Word Alignment Models (HMM, IBM3, IBM4) |
Vogel |
|
ppt |
Homework3 is out |
| W 2/2 |
Phrase Alignment |
Vogel |
|
ppt |
|
| M 2/7 |
Distortion Model |
Vogel |
|
ppt |
Homework4 is out |
| W 2/9 |
Decoder for Phrase-based |
Vogel |
|
ppt1
ppt2
|
|
| M 2/14 |
Minimum Error Rate Training |
Vogel |
|
ppt |
Homework5 is out |
| M 2/21 |
Language Model |
Vogel |
|
ppt |
|
| W 2/23 |
MT Evaluation |
Lavie |
|
ppt |
|
| M 2/28 |
Midterm Exam |
| 3/2,14 |
Automated Metrics for MT Evaluation |
Lavie |
|
ppt |
|
| 3/16,21 |
Syntax-Based Translation Models |
Lavie |
|
ppt |
|
| 3/23 |
Decoding and Inference with Syntactic Translation Model |
Dyer |
|
pdf |
|
| 3/28 |
Syntax Decoding II |
Dyer |
|
pdf |
|
| 3/30 |
System Combination |
Kenneth/Silja |
|
pdf1 pdf2 |
|
| 4/04 |
Factored Models |
Vogel |
|
ppt |
|
| 4/06 |
Comparable Corpora |
Sanjika |
|
pdf |
|
| 4/11 |
Discriminated Word Alignment |
Vogel |
|
ppt |
|
| 4/18 |
MIRA-MBR |
Vogel |
|
ppt |
|
| 4/20 |
MT for Languages with Limitted Resources |
Lavie |
|
ppt |
|
| 4/27 |
Final Project Presentation |
| 4/29 |
Final Project Presentation (10AM-12PM GHC 6501) |