Lecture 26 (01/06/2018): neural machine translation + end of the course!

The EM algorithm for word alignment in SMT. Beam search for decoding. Introduction to neural machine translation: the encoder-decoder neural architecture; back translation; byte pair encoding. The BLEU evaluation score. Performances and recent improvements. End of the course!

Lecture 25 (31/05/2018): bilingual/multilingual embeddings; semantic parsing

Bilingual and multilingual embeddings. Offline vs. online embeddings. Semantic parsing: definition, comparison to Semantic Role Labeling, approaches, a recent approach in detail. The Abstract Meaning Representation formalism. Introduction to machine translation (MT) and history of MT. Overview of statistical MT.