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Date Topic Readings (starred=graduate level)
Aug 29 Introduction
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Aug 31 Basics in Language and Probability
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  • Koehn (2010), Statistical Machine Translation, Chapter 2.1 and 3
Sep 05 Language Models
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  • Koehn (2010), Statistical Machine Translation, Chapter 7
Sep 07 IBM Model 1 and the EM Algorithm
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Sep 12 Phrase-Based Models
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Sep 14 Decoding
[Video] [Youtube] [Demo]
Sep 19 Evaluation
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Sep 21 Introduction to Neural Networks
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Sep 26 Computation Graphs
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Sep 28 Neural Language Models
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Oct 03 Neural Translation Models
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Oct 05 Decoding in Neural Translation Models
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  • Koehn (2020), Neural Machine Translation, Chapter 9
Oct 10 Machine Learning Tricks
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  • Koehn (2020), Neural Machine Translation, Chapter 10
Oct 12 Alternative Architectures
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Oct 17 Words and Morphology
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  • Koehn (2010), Statistical Machine Translation, Chapter 10.2
  • Koehn (2020), Neural Machine Translation, Chapter 12
Oct 24 Adaptation
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Oct 26 Beyond Parallel Data
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Oct 31 Syntax and Semantics
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Nov 02 Current Challenges
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Nov 05 Corpus Acquisition from the Internet
[Video] [Youtube]
Nov 09 Analysis and Visualization
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  • Koehn (2020), Neural Machine Translation, Chapter 17
Nov 14 Speech Translation
Nov 16 Computer Aided Translation
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Nov 28 Project Presentations
Nov 30 Project Presentations
Dec 05 Project Presentations
Dec 07 Project Presentations