Welcome to the Machine Translation Marathon

This wiki contains information about the second MT Marathon. There's information about both the Open Source Convention and the Summer School as well as a List Of Participants.

Research Talks

• Alexander Fraser: Improved Word Alignment in Statistical Machine Translation
• Adam Lopez: Machine Translation by Pattern Matching
• Andreas Eisele: Hybrid Architectures for Machine Translation
• Holger Schwenk: Smoothing and Data Selection in Large SMT Systems
• Ondřej Bojar: Problems of Deep Syntactic English-to-Czech MT
• Petra Gieselmann: Architecture of the Lucy Translation System
• Stephan Oepen: Grammar-Based Processing and Re-Usable Hybrid MT
• Michael Jellinghaus: A Data-Driven Approach to Deep Machine Translation
• Nicola Bertoldi: A Tutorial on the IRSTLM Library
• Chris Dyer: SMT Model Building with MapReduce
• Hieu Hoang: Short Range Re-ordering using POS Tags

Schedule for Saturday

We revised the schedule for Saturday:

• 09:00 Bertoldi: IRST Language Model
• 09:45 Dyer: Model Estimation with MapReduce
• 10:30 (coffee break)
• 11:00 Hoang: Short Range Reordering using POS
• 11:45 Project Proposals
• 13:00 (lunch)
• 14:00 Activities Summaries
• 15:30 Discussion and Closing

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