11-734: Advanced Machine Translation Seminar

Spring 2008

Course Description

The Advanced Machine Translation Seminar is a graduate-level seminar on current research topics in Machine Translation. The seminar will cover recent research on different approaches to Machine Translation (Statistical MT, Example-based MT, Interlingua and rule-based approaches, hybrid approaches, etc.). Related problems that are common to many of the various approaches will also be discussed, including the acquisition and construction of language resources for MT (translation lexicons, language models, etc.), methods for building large sentence-aligned bilingual corpora, automatic word alignment of sentence-parallel data, etc. The material covered will be mostly drawn from recent conference and journal publications on the topics of interest and will vary from year to year. The course will be run in a seminar format, where the students prepare presentations of selected research papers and lead in class discussion about the presented papers.

Prerequisites & corequisites:

11-731: Machine Translation, or instructor approval.

General Information

Class Meeting Time and Location:: Wednesday, 1:30PM - 2:50PM, Location SH 219
Primary Instructor:: Alon Lavie, alavie@cs.cmu.edu, NSH 4615, 268-5655, Office Hours: By Appointment