Syllabus

Date	Topic	Readings (starred=graduate level)
Aug 27	Introduction [Video] [Youtube]	Koehn (2010), Statistical Machine Translation, Chapter 1.2 Weaver (1949), Translation Kay, Translation
Aug 29	Basics in Language and Probability [Video] [Youtube]	Koehn (2010), Statistical Machine Translation, Chapter 2.1 and 3
Sep 03	Language Models [Video] [Youtube]	Koehn (2010), Statistical Machine Translation, Chapter 7
Sep 05	IBM Model 1 and the EM Algorithm [Video] [Youtube]	Koehn (2010), Statistical Machine Translation, Chapter 4.1-4.2 Knight (1997), Automating Knowledge Acquisition for Machine Translation
Sep 10	Phrase-Based Models [Video] [Youtube]	Koehn (2010), Statistical Machine Translation, Chapter 5 Durrani et al. (2013), Can Markov Models Over Minimal Translation Units Help Phrase-Based SMT?
Sep 12	Decoding [Video] [Youtube] [Demo]	Koehn (2010), Statistical Machine Translation, Chapter 6 Heafield et al. (2014), Faster Phrase-Based Decoding by Refining Feature State
Sep 17	Evaluation [Video] [Youtube]	Koehn (2010), Statistical Machine Translation, Chapter 8 Koehn (2020), Neural Machine Translation, Chapter 4 Graham et al. (2014), Is Machine Translation Getting Better over Time?
Sep 19	Introduction to Neural Networks [Video] [Youtube]	Koehn (2020), Neural Machine Translation, Chapter 5 Makin (2006), Backpropagation LeCun et al. (1998), Efficient BackProp Srivastava et al. (2014), Dropout - A Simple Way to Prevent Neural Networks from Overfitting
Sep 24	Computation Graphs [Video] [Youtube]	Koehn (2020), Neural Machine Translation, Chapter 6 Tensorflow, Neural network online demo
Sep 26	Neural Language Models [Video] [Youtube]	Koehn (2020), Neural Machine Translation, Chapter 7 Bengio et al. (2002), A Neural Probabilistic Language Model Tomas Mikolov (2012), Statistical Language Models Based on Neural Networks, Chapter 3 Karpathy et al. (2015), Visualizing and Understanding Recurrent Networks
Oct 01	Neural Translation Models [Video] [Youtube]	Koehn (2020), Neural Machine Translation, Chapter 8 Bahdanau et al. (2015), Neural Machine Translation by Jointly Learning to Align and Translate
Oct 03	Decoding in Neural Translation Models [Video] [Youtube]	Koehn (2020), Neural Machine Translation, Chapter 9
Oct 08	Machine Learning Tricks [Video] [Youtube]	Koehn (2020), Neural Machine Translation, Chapter 10
Oct 10	Alternative Architectures [Video] [Youtube]	Koehn (2020), Neural Machine Translation, Chapter 11 Vaswani et al. (2017), Attention Is All You Need Gehring et al. (2017), Convolutional Sequence to Sequence Learning
Oct 15	Linguistic Intermezzo [Video] [Youtube] [Video 2] [Youtube 2]	Koehn (2010), Statistical Machine Translation, Chapter 10.2 Koehn (2020), Neural Machine Translation, Chapter 12, 15 Cook et al. (2011), The World Color Survey Database - History and Use Banarescu et al. (2013), Abstract Meaning Representation for Sembanking
Oct 22	Beyond Parallel Data [Video] [Youtube]	Koehn (2020), Neural Machine Translation, Chapter 14 Fan (2020), Introducing the First AI Model That Translates 100 Languages Without Relying on English
Oct 24	Large Language Models	Radford et al. (2019), Language Models are Unsupervised Multitask Learners Llama Team, Meta AI (2024), The Llama 3 Herd of Models Briakou et al. (2023), On the Role of Incidental Bilingualism in PaLM’s Translation Capability
Oct 29	Adaptation [Video] [Youtube]	Koehn (2020), Neural Machine Translation, Chapter 13 Axelrod et al. (2011), Domain adaptation via pseudo in-domain data selection
Oct 31	Current Challenges [Video] [Youtube]	Koehn (2020), Neural Machine Translation, Chapter 16 Koehn and Knowles (2017), Six Challenges for Neural Machine Translation Khayrallah and Koehn (2018), On the Impact of Various Types of Noise on Neural Machine Translation
Nov 05	Corpus Acquisition from the Internet [Video] [Youtube]	Uszkoreit et al. (2010), Large Scale Parallel Document Mining for Machine Translation Resnik and Smith (2003), The Web as a Parallel Corpus Buck and Heafield (2014), N-gram Counts and Language Models from the Common Crawl Koehn et al. (2018), Findings of the WMT 2018 Shared Task on Parallel Corpus Filtering
Nov 07	Analysis and Visualization [Video] [Youtube]	Koehn (2020), Neural Machine Translation, Chapter 17
Nov 12	Computer Aided Translation [Video] [Youtube]	Barrachina et al. (2009), Statistical Approaches to Computer-Assisted Translation Knowles and Koehn (2017), Neural Interactive Machine Translation
Nov 14	Speech Translation
Nov 19	Project Presentations
Nov 21	Project Presentations
Dec 03	Project Presentations
Dec 05	Project Presentations