BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Talks.cam//talks.cam.ac.uk//
X-WR-CALNAME:Talks.cam
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Topics in Statistical Machine Translation - Matt Shannon and Sebas
 tien Bratieres
DTSTART:20100520T130000Z
DTEND:20100520T143000Z
UID:TALK24003@talks.cam.ac.uk
CONTACT:Shakir Mohamed
DESCRIPTION:We're going to talk about statistical machine translation (SMT
 ).  We'll cover some basic SMT models\, outline the improvements that have
  turned out to give the biggest gains\, and talk about two extensions in m
 ore detail.\n\nFirstly we'll discuss how MapReduce can be used for SMT:\n\
 nT. Brants\, A. Popat\, P. Xu\, F. Och\, and J. Dean\, “Large Language M
 odels in Machine Translation\,” Proceedings of the 2007 Joint Conference
  on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Nat
 ural Language Learning (EMNLP-CoNLL)\, 2007\, pp. 867\, 858.\n\nC. Dyer\, 
 A. Cordova\, A. Mont\, and J. Lin\, “Fast\, easy\, and cheap:\nConstruct
 ion of statistical machine translation models with MapReduce\,” Proceedi
 ngs of the Third Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation\, 2008\, pp. 
 199–207.\n\nThen we'll talk about hierarchical phrase-based translation\
 , which is theoretically pretty as well as giving significant improvements
  in\ntranslation:\n\nChiang (2005) - "A hierarchical phrase-based model fo
 r statistical machine translation" (http://acl.ldc.upenn.edu/P/P05/p05-103
 3.pdf)\n\nG. Iglesias\, A. de Gispert\, E. R. Banga and W. Byrne. (2009) "
 Hierarchical Phrase-Based Translation with Weighted Finite State Transduce
 rs" (http://www.aclweb.org/anthology-new/N/N09/N09-1049.pdf)\n\nBackground
  material we've found helpful includes the book "Statistical Machine Trans
 lation" by Koehn (2009) (http://www.statmt.org/)\, and the review paper by
  Lopez (2008) "Statistical Machine Translation"\n(http://homepages.inf.ed.
 ac.uk/alopez/papers/survey.pdf).\n
LOCATION:Engineering Department\, CBL Room 438
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR