MT Marathon 2011

Sixth MT Marathon

September 5^th to 10^th

Trento, Italy

Lectures

• Introduction to Statistical Machine Translation (Chris Dyer)
• Word-based SMT (Barry Haddow)
• Phrase-based SMT (Barry Haddow)
• Decoding in SMT (Phil Blunsom)
• Language modeling (Kenneth Heafield)
• Tree-based SMT (Marcello Federico)
• Syntax-based SMT (Philipp Koehn)
• Computer Aided Translation (Philipp Koehn)

Invited Talks:

• Marco Turchi, Joint Research Center, IPSC, Action Optima. "Multilingual text mining and Machine Translation activities carried out at the EC’s Joint Research Centre (JRC)".
• Hieu Hoang, Asia Online, former developer of Moses. "Mixed-Syntax Translation Model".
• Marco Trombetti, CEO of Translated. "MyMemory, machine translation meets human translation".

Technical talks:

• Zeman, Fishel, Bojar, Berka, "Addicter: What Is Wrong with My Translations?"
• Przywara, Bojar, "eppex: Epochal Phrase Table Extraction for Statistical Machine Translation".
• Popović, "Hjerson: An Open Source Tool for Automatic Error Classification of Machine Translation Output".
• Lambert, "BIA: a Discriminative Phrase Alignment Toolkit".
• Servan, Schwenk, "Optimising Multiple Metrics with MERT".
• Hasler, Haddow, Koehn, "Margin Infused Relaxed Algorithm for Moses".
• Crego, Yvon, Mariño, "Ncode: an Open Source Bilingual N-gram SMT Toolkit".
• Simianer, Wäschle, Riezler, "Multi-Task Minimum Error Rate Training for SMT".