Course pages 2012–13

Statistical Machine Translation

Stephen Clark's Lectures

• Jan 23 Lecture 1: Introduction to MT and SMT
  
• Jan 24 Lecture 2: Word Alignment Models
  
• Jan 30 Lecture 3: Beyond IBM Model 1 to Phrase-Based Models
  
• Feb 6 Lecture 4: Decoding with Phrase-Based Models
  
• Feb 7 Lecture 5: Introduction to Syntax-Based Models
  

Bill Byrne's Lectures

• Lecture 6: Evaluation of Machine Translation (with introduction to WFSTs)
  
• Lecture 7: Phrase-based Translation with WFSTs
  
• Lecture 8: Hierarchical Phrase-based Translation
  
• Lecture 9: Hierarchical Translation Grammars, Syntax-based Translation
  
• Lecture 10: Minimum Error Training, Rescoring and System Combination
  

Practical Exercises

• Practical Handout 1
  
• Practical Handout 2
  
• Practical Handout 3
  

Note that handout 3 is a revised version.

Questions from Practical Handouts 1, 2 and 3 must be answered in a single report, which must be handed in by 18th March at 4.00pm.

Practical 1: Automatic Machine Translation Evaluation.
Demonstrated Session: Monday 11th February 2013.

Practical 2: Weighted Finite-State Transducers.
Demonstrated Session: Monday 18th Feburary 2013.

Practical 3: Hierarchical Phrase-based Translation with alternative grammars
Demonstrated Sessions: Monday 4th March 2013, Monday 11th March 2013.