Fifth Machine Translation Marathon

13-18 September 2010

LIUM, University of Le Mans

Lectures :

Adam Lopez : Introduction and machine translation evaluation.

Patrik Lambert: Statistical machine translation : IBM models and word alignment (based on lecture by Alexandra Birch and Philipp Koehn).

Nicola Bertoldi: Statistical language models.

Nicola Bertoldi: IRSTLM toolkit.

Barry Haddow: Phrase-based models.

Barry Haddow: Decoding.

Adam Lopez: Context-free translation models.

Jean Sénellart : Rule-based machine translation [not available]

Talks :

Mark Fishel: CorporA1: a method and tool for handling overlapping parallel corpora. [published in Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics 94, September 2010] [presentation]

Christian Federmann and Andreas Eisele: MT Server Land : an open-source MT architecture. [published in Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics 94, September 2010] [presentation]

Gideon Maillette de Buy Wenniger, Maxim Khalilov, and Khalil Sima’an: A toolkit for visualizing the coherence of tree-based reordering with word-alignments. [published in Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics 94, September 2010] [presentation]

Stephan Peitz : A guide to Jane, an open-source hierarchical translation toolkit.

Philipp Koehn: An experimental management system. [published in Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics 94, September 2010] [presentation]

Jesus Gimenez and Lluis Marquez: Asiya : an opentoolkit for automatic machine translation evaluation. [published in Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics 94, September 2010] [presentation]

Daniel Stein, David Vilar, Stephan Peitz and Hermann Ney : Jane : a guide to RWTH’s hierarchical translation toolkit. [presentation]