Machine Translation: theory and practice

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Monday, October 27 2014, 13:30 - 17:00
UFRGS, Instituto de Informática, Campus do Vale
Sala 102, prédio 43413 (67)

Have you ever used Google's famous translation system? Have you ever wondered how Google Translate works?
This mini-course is addressed at all students and researchers who want to know more about how computers can translate text from one language into another.
It will feature two parts: a first historical and theoretical overview on MT systems in general, and a second practical session where the students will train a statistical MT system from scratch, using the Moses toolkit.

Part 1: History and architectures of MT systems (linguistic, computational, operational)

Christian Boitet, 13:30 to 15:00

Part 2: Taming Moses: a practical introduction to Statistical Machine Translation

Carlos Ramisch, 15:30 to 17:00

Commands
New version of mosesdecoder/scripts/training/train-model.perl
Slides

Pre-requisites for practical session

Basic Linux command line
Basic notions of probability

Please, let us know that you would like to participate by sending an email to carlos dot ramisch at lif dot univ-mrs dot fr.

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Machine Translation: theory and practice