Class Meeting for 10-710 11-03-2011

This is one of the class meetings on the schedule for the course Structured Prediction 10-710 in Fall 2011.

Guest lecture by Kevin Gimpel.

Alignment and Translation

• slides forthcoming

Required Readings

• Minimum Error Rate Training in Statistical Machine Translation, Och, 2003.

Optional Readings

• The Mathematics of Statistical Machine Translation: Parameter Estimation, Brown et al., CL, 1993.
• Statistical Machine Translation: IBM Models 1 and 2, Collins, Course Notes, 2011.
• Statistical Phrase-Based Translation, Koehn et al., 2003.
• Hierarchical Phrase-Based Translation, Chiang, 2007.
• An End-to-End Discriminative Approach to Machine Translation, Liang et al., 2006.
• A Discriminative Latent Variable Model for Statistical Machine Translation, Blunsom et al., 2008.
• 11,001 New Features for Statistical Machine Translation, Chiang et al., 2009.
• Tuning as Ranking, Hopkins & May, 2011.