Advanced MT Seminar - Spring 2006

(1) Approaches for Construction of MT Resources:	[3-4 weeks]
    [David, Sanjika, Jaedy, Matthias]
    - Algorithms for Sentence Alignment
      [David]
    - Algorithms and Models for Word Alignment
      [Sanjika, Jaedy]
    - Creation of Parallel and Comparable Bilingual Corpora
      [Sanjika, Matthias]
    - Building Translation Lexicons

    - Creation of Monolingual Training Corpora
      [Matthias]

(2) Approaches for Handling Syntactic Structure and Divergences in MT	
    [3-4 weeks]
    [Behrang, Alison, Jaedy, Joy?]
    - EBMT
      [Jaedy?]
    - Phrase-based SMT (Knight et al, others)
      [Behrang]
    - HIERO (David Chiang's work)
      [Behrang, Joy?]
    - Learnable Transfer-based systems (AVENUE, others)
      [Alon, Alison?]
    - Language-specific syntactic phenomena and treatment
      [Alison]
    - Non-compositional divergences and constructions


(3) MT Approaches that use Bridge/Pivot Languages	[2-3 weeks]
    [Sanjika, Alison, Matthias]
    - Building Translation Lexicons, LMs, etc.
    - David Yarowsky et al's work

(4) Issues in Speech Translation			[2-3 weeks]
    [Arthur, Silja]
    - Punctuation
      [Silja]
    - Segmentation

    - Tight Coupling of ASR & MT
      [Arthur]

(5) Automatic Metrics for MT Evaluation			[2-3 weeks]
    [Arthur]
    - BLEU
      [Arthur]
    - METEOR, BLANC
      [Arthur, Alon, Lucian]