Multilingual NLP

Date	Topic	Readings
Jan 24	Introduction and MT	Koehn (2010), Statistical Machine Translation, Chapter 1.2
Jan 26	MT and Large Language Models	Devlin et al. (2018), BERT Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding Xue et al. (2021), mT5 A Massively Multilingual Pre-trained Text-to-Text Transformer
Jan 31	Survey of Multilingual NLP
Feb 02	Multilingual Information Extraction	Bikel and Zitouni (2012), Multilingual Natural Language Processing Applications, Chapter 13 Yarmohammadi et al. (2021), Everything Is All It Take A Multipronged Strategy for Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Information Extraction Chen et al. (2022), Frustratingly Easy Label Projection for Cross-lingual Transfer
Feb 07	Project Proposal Presentations
Feb 09	Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR)	Manning et al. (2008), Introduction to Infomation Retrieval, Chapter 1 Robertson and Sparck Jones (1976), Okapi BM 25 Nair et al. (2022), Transfer Learning Approaches for Building Cross-Language Dense Retrieval Models
Feb 14	Multilingual Information Retrieval (MLIR)	Lawrie et al. (2023), Neural Approaches to Multilingual Information Retrieval
Feb 16	Multilingual Spoken Language Understanding (SLU)	Hemphill et al. (1990), The ATIS Spoken Language Systems Pilot Corpus Faruqui and Hakkani-Tur (2022), Revisiting the Boundary between ASR and NLU in the Age of Conversational Dialog Systems
Feb 21	Multilingual Semantics (Guest Lecture by Elias Stengel-Eskin)
Feb 23	Multilingual Question Answering
Feb 28	Multilingual QA (Methods)
Mar 02	Typology
Mar 07	Bilingual Lexicon Induction (BLI) (Guest Lecture by Kelly Marchisio)
Mar 09	Code-Switching
Mar 14	Low-Resource
Mar 16	GPT-4
Mar 28	Multilingual Automatic Speech Recognition
Mar 30	Mid-Point Project Presentations
Apr 27	Final Project Presentations