Syllabus

Date	Topic	Readings (starred=graduate level)
Aug 31	Introduction [Video] [Youtube]	Koehn (2010), Statistical Machine Translation, Chapter 1.2 Weaver (1949), Translation Kay, Translation
Sep 02	Basics in Language and Probability [Video] [Youtube]	Koehn (2010), Statistical Machine Translation, Chapter 2.1 and 3
Sep 07	Language Models [Video] [Youtube]	Koehn (2010), Statistical Machine Translation, Chapter 7
Sep 09	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 14	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 16	Decoding [Video] [Youtube] [Demo]	Koehn (2010), Statistical Machine Translation, Chapter 6 Heafield et al. (2014), Faster Phrase-Based Decoding by Refining Feature State
Sep 21	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 23	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 28	Computation Graphs [Video] [Youtube]	Koehn (2020), Neural Machine Translation, Chapter 6 Tensorflow, Neural network online demo
Sep 30	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 05	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 07	Decoding in Neural Translation Models [Video] [Youtube]	Koehn (2020), Neural Machine Translation, Chapter 9
Oct 12	Machine Learning Tricks [Video] [Youtube]	Koehn (2020), Neural Machine Translation, Chapter 10
Oct 14	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 19	Words and Morphology [Video] [Youtube]	Koehn (2010), Statistical Machine Translation, Chapter 10.2 Koehn (2020), Neural Machine Translation, Chapter 12
Oct 21	Adaptation [Video] [Youtube]	Koehn (2020), Neural Machine Translation, Chapter 13 Axelrod et al. (2011), Domain adaptation via pseudo in-domain data selection
Oct 26	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 28	Syntax and Semantics [Video] [Youtube]	Koehn (2020), Neural Machine Translation, Chapter 15 Cook et al. (2011), The World Color Survey Database - History and Use Banarescu et al. (2013), Abstract Meaning Representation for Sembanking
Nov 02	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 04	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 09	Analysis and Visualization [Video] [Youtube]	Koehn (2020), Neural Machine Translation, Chapter 17
Nov 11	Speech Translation
Nov 16	Computer Aided Translation [Video] [Youtube]	Barrachina et al. (2009), Statistical Approaches to Computer-Assisted Translation Knowles and Koehn (2017), Neural Interactive Machine Translation
Nov 18	No Class
Nov 30	Project Presentations
Dec 02	Project Presentations	Online, Zoom
Dec 07	Project Presentations
Dec 09	Project Presentations	Online, Zoom