COS401/TRA301 - Introduction to Machine Translation

Spring 2009

by Srinivas Bangalore

Syllabus and lecture notes

Week	Topics	Lecture Slides	Reading Assignment
1	Introduction to Machine Translation Need for Machine Translation Strengths and limitations of Machine Translation Historical Perspectives on Machine Translation Paradigms of Machine Translation Prototypes of MT systems	Introduction FSA and Morphology
2	Morphology Finite State Transducers Parts of Speech Tagging	FSTs & POS tagging FST tutorial	(JM) Chapters 3 and 5
3	Language Models N-grams	Language Models	(JM) Chapters 5 and 6
4	Formal Grammars of English Syntactic Parsing		(JM) Chapters 12 and 13. (JM) Chapter 4.

Reading List:

(NSW) Readings in Machine Translation, S. Nirenberg, H. Somers and Y. Wilks, MIT Press, 2002

(AT) Translation Engines: Techniques for Machine Translation, Arturo Trujillo, Springer 1999

(JM) Speech and Language Processing, Jurafsky and Martin, Prentice Hall

(HS) An introduction to machine translation, W.John Hutchins and Harold L. Somers, London: Academic Press, 1992.

(CW) Recent Advances in Example-Based Machine Translation (Text, Speech and Language Technology), Carl and Way, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003

(Dorr 1994) Dorr, Bonnie J., "Machine Translation Divergences: A Formal Description and Proposed Solution," Computational Linguistics, 20:4, pp. 597--633

(Brown et al, 1993) "The Mathematics of Statisti-cal Machine Translation: Parameter Estimation", P. Brown, S. Della Pietra, V. Della Pietra, R. Mercer. Computational Linguistics, 19(2).

Research papers on Machine Translation from recent conferences.

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