GOAL:

• Train students in the design of machine translation systems and computer-assisted translation tools using bilingual corpus.

• General presentation
• Part I: Statistical machine translation. Francisco Casacuberta
  • Presentation of the Part I
  • Introduction to machine translation
  • Statistical framework to machine translation
  • Word-based alignment models.
  • Phrase-based alignment models.
• Part II: Advanced models and search for statistical machine translation. Hermann Ney
• Part III: Syntax-based Machine Translation. Joan Andreu Sánchez
• Part IV: Finite-state models, interactive machine translation. Jorge Civera. (Poliformat: Traducción Automática > Recursos)
• Complementary talks.
  • Moses and Thot: tool-kits for phrase-based translation. Step by step. Jesús González
  • Practical issues in SMT. Antonio Lagarda
  • New Phrase-based ITGs for MT. Gillem Gascó
  • New Current approaches to adaptation in SMT. Germán Sanchis
  • New Confidence measures for SMT. Alberto Sanchís
  • Great-GIATI, finite-state models for translation. Jorge González
  • Multimodality in MT. Vicent Alabau

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• F.J. Och, H. Ney. A systematic comparison of various statistical alignment models. Computational Linguistics, 29(1):19-51, 2003.
• S. Niessen, H. Ney. Statistical machine translation with scarce resources using morpho-syntactic information. Computational Linguistics, 30(2):181-204, 2004.
• F. J. Och, H. Ney. The alignment template approach to statistical machine translation. Computational Linguistics, 30(4):417-449, 2004.
• F. Casacuberta and E. Vidal. Machine translation with inferred stochastic finite-state transducers. Computational Linguistics, 30(2):205-225, 2004.
• F. Casacuberta, H. Ney, F. J. Och, E. Vidal, J. M. Vilar, S. Barrachina, I. García-Varea, C. Martínez, D. Llorens, S. Molau, F. Nevado, M. Pastor, D. Picó, and A. Sanchis; Some approaches to statistical and finite-state speech-to-speech translation. Computer Speech and Language, 18:25-47, 2004.
• S. Barrachina, O. Bender, F. Casacuberta, J. Civera, E. Cubel, S. Khadivi, A. Lagarda H. Ney, J. Tomás, and E. Vida:. Statistical approaches to computer-assisted translation. Computational Linguistics, 35(1):3-28, 2009
• A. López: Statistical Machine Translation. ACM Computing Surveys 40(3): 1-49, 2008.
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