No. | Date | Lecturer | Topic | Reading |
1 | 13.1 | Haddow | Introduction | - |
2 | 16.1 | Germann | History (rule-based systems, up to 1990s) | Banko and Brill, Halevy et al., Knight et al. |
3 | 20.1 | Haddow | Evaluation (automatic and subjective) | Koehn Chapter 8; Papineni et al, Callison-Burch et al. |
4 | 23.1 | Haddow | Data (Parallel corpora, comparable corpora) | Koehn pp 53 -- 57, Uszkoreit et al. |
5 | 27.1 | Haddow | Language Models | Koehn Chapter 7, Heafield et al. |
6 | 30.1 | Germann | Word-based models 1 (IBM Model 1, EM) | Koehn Chapter 4: Section 4.1, 4.2 |
7 | 3.2 | Germann | IBM Models in Practice: Word-based Translation and Alignment Models | Koehn Chapter 4: Section 4.4.1, 4.5 |
| 6.2 | Haddow/Germann | Tutorial | Assignment Clarifications |
8 | 10.2 | Huck | Phrase-based models 1 (Training) | Koehn Chapter 5 |
9 | 13.2 | Huck | Phrase-based models 2 (Decoding) | Koehn Chapter 6 |
10 | 24.2 | Huck | Phrase-based models 3 (Tuning) | Koehn Chapter 9: Section 9.3, Hopkins and May |
| 27.2 | Hoang/Huck | Tutorial | |
11 | 3.3 | Huck | Reordering | Koehn Chapter 10: section 10.3, Birch et al. |
12 | 6.3 | Hoang | Syntax-based Models 1 | Koehn chaper 11, Hiero |
13 | 10.3 | Hoang | Syntax-based Models 2 | Synchronous Grammar Tutorial by D. Chiang |
14 | 13.3 | Hoang | More on Syntax-based MT | 11001 New Features for SMT |
14 | 17.3 | Hoang | SMT of Spoken Language; Compressed Phrase Tables | TBD |
16 | 20.3 | Haddow | Domain Adaptation | Irvine et al., Sennrich |
17 | 24.3 | Germann | Guest lecture by Philipp Koehn: Computer-aided Translation | TBD
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