C SC 620Advanced Topics in NaturalLanguage ProcessingLecture 255/4Administrivia• Next Semester– LING 438/538• The official graduate computational linguistics course• Not a seminar series: wide range of topics• Hands-on computer lab homeworks• See LING 388 homepage and on-line notes for examples– LING 478/578 Speech Technology• Main topics: !speech synthesis, automatic speech recognition• Prerequisite: !either a phonetics course (e.g. Ling. 314,515) or good programming skills.• Counts as an elective for the Computer Science minor.• Oriented toward skills for work in the speech tech. industry.• It's fun! !(Really, I promise.) [Nastasha Warner]MT Summit IX• Year is 2003• Online proceedings at– http://www.amtaweb.org/summit/MTSummit/papers.htmlMT Summit IX• Two parts– Panel Discussion• Have we found the Holy Grail?– At the TMI-92 Conference in Montreal, Robert Mercer, one of theleading researchers on the IBM Candide project, provocatively assertedthat “rationalist methods in MT will be on the scrapheap five years fromnow.”– Although Candide performed surprisingly well in the DARPAcompetition organized in the mid 1990’s, it did not actually surpassSYSTRAN.– At this year’s NIST competition, on the other hand, statistical MT (SMT)systems similar to Candide did outperform all the participatingcommercial off-the-shelf systems, according to the NIST score.– Paper• J. Hutchins: Has machine translation improved? Somehistorical comparisons.Have we found the Holy Grail?• Panel Questions– http://www.amtaweb.org/summit/MTSummit/FinalPapers/MTSummit_Sept2003.ppt• Panel Slides (Some)– Hermann Ney• http://www.amtaweb.org/summit/MTSummit/FinalPapers/MT_Summit_Panel_18Sep03.pdf– Steve Richardson!• http://www.amtaweb.org/summit/MTSummit/FinalPapers/MTSummit2003Panel.ppt– Eduard Hovy• http://www.amtaweb.org/summit/MTSummit/FinalPapers/panel-hovy.pdfHas Machine Translation Improved?• J. Hutchins: Has machine translationimproved? Some historicalcomparisons.– http://www.amtaweb.org/summit/MTSummit/FinalPapers/12-Hutchins-final.pdf– Examples• Russian to English• French to English• German to
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