GF meets SMT
November 1-5, 2010, Chalmers University of Technology
The UPC team experts in Statistical Machine Translation are visiting the GF group to work on the MOLTO project's task of making GF more robust by SMT methods. The first days of this visit are devoted to introductory lectures, suitable to a general audience and are therefore open to the public.
The goal is that all participants will
- learn to use standard SMT tools (Giza, Moses)
- understand the basic principles and algorithms behind SMT
- build an SMT system of their own as the course assignment (worth 1.5 European credits for those interested)
Since some software depends on the operating system it is advisable to install them before the session. For the tutorial we will use the following packages on a linux machine:
- SRILM: http://www-speech.sri.com/projects/srilm/download.html
- GIZA++: http://code.google.com/p/giza-pp/downloads/list
- MOSES: http://sourceforge.net/projects/mosesdecoder
GF is mentioned in the title because the ultimate goal is to acquire understanding of SMT techniques in the GF group - but there is no planned GF tutorial. If there are participants who want a crash course, it can be provided. The advanced topics and group work will study the ways in which GF and SMT can be combined.
Day 1-2
Place: EDIT Room, 3rd Floor, ED house, Chalmers. Except Monday till 11.00: room 6128, 6th floor.
| 1 Nov. 2010 | title | speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Machine Translation in MOLTO | Aarne |
| 10:15 - 12:00 | SMT Tutorial 1: Basics | Cristina España |
| 12:00 - 14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | SMT Tutorial 2: Hands-on | Cristina España |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee break | |
| 16:00 - 17:00 | SMT Tutorial 3: Evaluation & Hands-on | Cristina España |
| 2 Nov. 2010 | title | speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 10:15 - 12:00 | GF grammars, probabilities, statistics, alignments | Ramona & al |
| 12:00 - 14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Manual Evaluation Methods | Maarit |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Large-scale grammar writing: first experiences from the patent corpus | Aarne & al |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Coffee break | |
| 15:30 - 17:00 | SMT/GF combination. Alignments and translation tables | Working Session |
Day 3-4
Place: rooms 5128 (Wed 9-17, Thu 9-13), 4128 (Thu 13-17), ED house, Chalmers. Or private offices.
General theme: ST-GF hybrid baselines: GF-based alignments; GF fragments hard/soft combination.
Own work or group work
| 4 Nov. 2010 | title | speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 10:15 - 11:15 | A TAG formalism for Parsing and Translation (seminar) | Xavier Carreras |
| 11:15 - 12:15 | On discriminative GF models for Parsing and Translation (brainstorming) | Xavier Carreras |
| 12:15 - 14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | Statistical models for GF syntax | Working Session |
Day 5 (advanced topics)
| 5 Nov. 2010 | title | speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 10:15 - 11:15 | MT evaluation | Lluís Màrquez |
| 11:15 - 12:00 | Soft integration SMT/GF, GF driven (brainstorming) | Lluís Màrquez, Cristina España |
| 12:00 - 14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 - 14:45 | Working Session | X |
| 14:45 - 15:15 | Coffee break | |
| 15:15 - 17:00 | Working Session | X |
Lodging
A few rooms have been reserved at Quality Hotel Panorama. Contact Aarne if you want to get one of these.
Signups closed for this Event
| Attachment | Size |
|---|---|
| tutorialSMT.pdf | 1.63 MB |
| mt-in-molto.pdf | 216.35 KB |
| TAG-formalism-for-parsing-and-translation.pdf | 565.69 KB |
| discriminative-GF-grammars.pdf | 194.62 KB |
| MT-evaluation-seminar.pdf | 1.54 MB |
| MOLTO-hybrid.pdf | 187.13 KB |
| GF_SMT_manualeval.pdf | 126.42 KB |
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