Course Program:
- Overview, History of MT, Basic concepts (Arnold, Chp.1; Koehn, Chp.1)
- Basic definitions, Rule-based approaches, An MT scenario (Hutchins, Chp.1.2; Hutchins, Chp.4.1-4.3; Arnold, Chp.2)
- Example translations (Direct, Transfer, Interlingua) (Hutchins, Chp.6.4-6.7)
- Statistical MT
- Word-based translation (Koehn, Chp.4)
- IBM models (Koehn, Chp.4)
- Phrase-based translation (Koehn, Chp.5)
- Decoding (Koehn, Chp.6)
- Language models (Koehn, Chp.7)
- Example-based MT (Trujillo, Chp.8.1)
- MT evaluation and quality (Trujillo, Chp.10; Arnold, Chp.9; Koehn, Chp.8)
- Paper presentations
Reference Books:
Text Books:
- An Introduction to Machine Translation, W.J.Hutchins, H.L.Somers, Academic Press, 1992
- Translation Engines: Techniques for Machine Translation, A.Trujillo, Springer Verlag, 1999
- Machine Translation: An Introductory Guide, D.Arnold, L.Balkan, S.Meijer, R.L.Humphreys, L.Sadler, Blackwell Pub., 2001
- Statistical Machine Translation, P. Koehn, Cambridge Unv. Press, 2010
Reference Books:
- Recent Advances in Example-Based Machine Translation, M.Carl, A.Way (eds.), Kluwer Academic Pub., 2003
- New Statistical and Syntactic Models for Machine Translation, M.Khalilov, J.A.R.Fonollosa, VDM Pub., 2010
- Learning Machine Translation, C.Goutte, N.Cancedda, M.Dymetman, G.Foster (eds.), MIT, 2009
- Handbook of Natural Language Processing and Machine Translation, J.Olive, C.Christianson, J.McCary (eds.), Springer, 2011
- Readings in Machine Translation, S.Nirenburg, H.Somers, Y.Wilks (eds.), MIT, 2003
- Language Modeling For Machine Translation, M.Raab, VDM Verlag, 2007
Grading:
| Midterm | % 25 |
| Readings | % 15 |
| Application Project | % 15 |
| Research Project | % 15 |
| Final | % 30 |
Notes:
- Several reading papers will be assigned during the course. A 2-3 pages long summary of each paper will be delivered on the week following the assignment.
- An application project will be assigned.
- A research project about an MT topic will be prepared. The project will be presented in the final lectures.
- The midterm and final exams will be “closed books and notes”.
- You can follow the announcements from the course web site.
- You can obtain some of the course materials from the instructor.
- Please read the section “graduate courses” in the web page General Information for Students. This page explains the course policy, the grading system, and information about the assignments and projects.
Announcements:
- Letter grades were announced. The letter grades were given according to the catalogue grading system (http://www.cmpe.boun.edu.tr/~gungort/informationstudents.htm). (03.06.2016)
- Deadline for Readings 6,7: 12.04.2016. (29.03.2016)
- Midterm grades were announced. The papers can be seen at any time until 01.04.2016. (29.03.2016)
- Research project was announced. The evaluation of the project is expected to be similar to the previous year's evaluation, although it is subject to change. (22.03.2016)
- Deadline for Reading 5: 22.03.2016. (15.03.2016)
- Deadline for Reading 4: 15.03.2016. (08.03.2016)
- Deadline for Reading 3: 08.03.2016. (01.03.2016)
- The midterm will be held on 29.03.2016 during lecture hours. (23.02.2016)
- Deadline for Reading 2: 23.02.2016. (16.02.2016)
- Deadline for Reading 1: 16.02.2016. (09.02.2016)
- For each reading assignment, a 3-4 pages long summary of the assigned reading will be delivered on the week following the assignment. The summary must be written in your own words; do not use any cut-and-paste parts. (08.02.2016)
- Please read the section "graduate courses" in the web page General Information for Students. This page explains the course policy, the grading system, and information about the assignments and projects. (08.02.2016)
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