Hasso-Plattner-Institut
Prof. Dr. h.c. mult. Hasso Plattner
 

Machine Translation

General information

  • Overall responsibility: Dr. Mariana Neves
  • Location: D-E.9/10
  • Time: Mon 15:15 - 16:45
  • First lecture: Mon October 17th, 2016
  • 2 Semesterwochenstunden (SWS)
  • 3 ECTS (graded)

Grading

60% project (in teams)

40% final exam

Books

Statistical Machine Translation, Philipp Koehn, Cambridge University Press, 2010

Speech and Natural Language Processing, Daniel Jurafsky and James H. Martin, Prentice Hall, 2008

Machine Translation, Pushpak Bhattacharyya, Chapman and Hall/CRC; Har/Psc edition

Lectures

(Program is subject to change)

 

Week Date Topic
1 Oct 17, 2016 Introduction to Machine Translation
2 Oct 24, 2016 Words, sentences and corpora
3 Oct 31, 2016 (Reformationstag)
4 Nov 7, 2016Lexical Translation and Alignment; Word-Based Models
5 Nov 14, 2016Word alignment; Statistical phrase-based models
6 Nov 21, 2016Decoding
7 Nov 28, 2016Language model (room V-2.16!)
8 Dec 5, 2016Evaluation 
9 Dec 12, 2016 (no lecture)
10Jan 2, 2017Mid-term presentation of projects
11 Jan 9, 2017(no lecture)
12 Jan 16, 2017Rule-based MT
13 Jan 23, 2017Example-based MT
14Jan 30, 2017Neural MT
15Feb 6, 2017

(no lecture)

16Feb 13, 2017Final exam
17Feb 20, 2017Final presentation of projects

Projects

(coming soon)

Link to tasks in the Conference on Machine Translation