Computational Linguistics & Phonetics Computational Linguistics & Phonetics Fachrichtung 4.7 Universität des Saarlandes

Language Technology II

Schedule Overview

Machine Translation

  • April 23
    Martin Kay — »Translation by Humans and Machines« Slides (2.2 MB)
  • April 25
    Christian Federmann — »An Outlook to Statistical MT« Slides (430 KB)
    Slides extracted from a presentation by Martin Kay
  • April 30: Martin Kay — »Symbolic Methods« Slides (337 KB)
  • May 2: Martin Kay — »Symbolic Methods II«
  • May 7: Martin Kay — »Transfer« Slides (462 KB)
  • May 9: No lecture
  • May 14: Martin Kay — »Transfer II«
  • May 16: Martin Kay — »Summary and QA Session«

Statistical Machine Translation

  • May 21: Christian Federmann — »SMT Overview« Slides (1.8 MB)
  • May 23: Christian Federmann — »SMT Overview II«
  • May 28: Christian Federmann — »SMT Decoding« Slides (804 KB)
  • May 30: No lecture
  • June 4: Christian Federmann — »SMT Decoding II«
  • June 6: Christian Federmann — »SMT Hybrid Methods« Slides (3.1 MB)
  • June 11: Christian Federmann — »SMT Hybrid Methods II«
  • June 13: Christian Federmann — »SMT Evaluation« Slides (1.2 MB)
  • June 18: Christian Federmann — »SMT Evaluation II«
  • June 20: Christian Federmann — »Summary and QA Session«

SMT Exercise Sheets

  1. Online MT Systems (129 KB);
  2. Implement IBM Model "0" (130 KB);
  3. Multi-reference BLEU Evaluation (161 KB).

Natural Language Human-Computer Interaction

Scheduled by mutual agreement.