Second
Machine Translation
Contents
Spring School
Day 1: Introduction to MT and MT Evaluation
Day 2: Word-based models and training
Day 3: Phrase-based models and decoding
Day 4: Factored translation models and discriminative training
Day 5: Tree-based models
Research Showcase
"Translation by Pattern Matching",
Adam Lopez, University of Edinburgh
"Improved Word Alignments for
Statistical MT", Alex Fraser, University of Stuttgart
"Problems of Deep Syntactic
English-to-Czech MT", Ondrej Bojar, Charles University
"Smoothing and Data Selection in
Large SMT Systems", Holger Schwenk, LIUM
"Architecture of the Lucy
Translation System", Petra Gieselmann, Lucy Software
"Hybrid Architectures for Machine
Translation", Andreas Eisele, University of Saarbrücken
"Grammar-based Processing and
Re-Usable Hybrid Machine Translation", Stephan Oepen, Norwegian
Institute for Science and Technology
"A Data-Driven Approach to
Deep Machine Translation", Michael Jellinghaus, University of
Saarbrücken
Open Source Convention
"The IRST Language Model
Library", Nicola Bertoldi, FBK
"Statistical MT Model Building with
MapReduce", Chris Dyer, University of Maryland
"Short range re-ordering using POS
tags”, Hieu Hoang, University of Edinburgh
"Roadmap for Moses", Philipp Koehn, University of Edinburgh [not
available]
Proposals for Projects [not available]
Reports from Activities at the Open Source Convention [not available]