MT Marathon 2015 Programme
Programme (Concluded)
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| Monday | |
| 9.00-10.30 | Lecture: MT Evaluation |
| S9 | Yvette Graham (DCU) |
| 11.00-12.00 | Keynote: Real-World Application of an Machine Translation Workflow |
| S9 | Tomáš Fulajtár (Moravia IT) |
| 12.00-13.00 | Project Proposals |
| S9 | see the live list of proposed projects |
| and Boaster slides (username and password: mtm) | |
| 14.30-16.00+ | Lab: Translate5 - Towards a General-Purpose MT Evaluation Tool |
| SU2 | Marc Mittag (MittagQI) |
| with a side note on MT-ComparEval by Martin Popel (Charles University in Prague) | |
| Tuesday | |
| 9.00-10.30 | Lecture: Introduction to Machine Translation and Phrase-Based Machine Translation |
| S9 | Aleš Tamchyna (Charles University in Prague) |
| 11.00-12.00 | Keynote: From n-gram Translation Models to large-scale, discriminatively trained conditional, Translation Models |
| S9 | François Yvon (LIMSI, University Paris Sud) |
| 12.00-12.20 | Boaster Session for Posters |
| S9 | see Poster Boasters (username and password: mtm) |
| 12.20-13.30+ | Poster and Demo Session |
| 1st floor | see Accepted Papers |
| 14.30-16.00+ | Lab: Efficient Experimenting with Moses and Eman (Eman Intro and Eman Lab) |
| SU2 | Aleš Tamchyna, Ondřej Bojar (Charles University in Prague) |
| Wednesday | |
| 9.00-9.45 | Lecture: Language Modelling |
| S9 | Kenneth Heafield (University of Edinburgh) |
| 9.45-10.30 | Lecture: Discriminative Training |
| S9 | Miloš Stanojević (ILLC, University of Amsterdam) |
| 11.00-12.00 | Keynote: Neural Network Models and Google Translate |
| S9 | Keith Stevens (Google) |
| 12.00-13.00 | Project mid-week reports (username and password: mtm) |
| S9 | |
| 14.30-16.00+ | Lab: Box — Moses Suite on Amazon EC2 |
| SU2 | Amittai Axelrod |
| Thursday | |
| 9.00-10.30 | Lecture: Deep Syntactic MT and TectoMT |
| S9 | Martin Popel (Charles University in Prague) |
| 11.00-12.00 | Keynote: Text Representations for NLP and MT |
| S9 | Hinrich Schütze (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) |
| 12.00-13.00 | Poster Session (optional, repeated) |
| first floor | * |
| 14.30-16.00+ | Lab: Treex for automatic post-editing or transfer-based translation (see also Treex website) |
| SU2 | Martin Popel and Dušan Variš (Charles University in Prague) |
| Friday | (Partly shared with Prague-Hamburg workshop. Full programme here.) |
| 9.00-10.55 | Prague-Hamburg keynote and research talks |
| S9 | Eva Hajičová: Introduction |
| Walther von Hahn: Preserving Vagueness: the central mission of next generation Digital Humanities | |
| Wolfgang Menzel: Cross-modal Interaction between Language and Vision | |
| Martin Popel: Machine Learning for Deep-syntactic MT | |
| Heike Zinsmeister: Resolving non-nominal anaphora: Challenges for annotation and resolution | |
| 11.15-12.35 | Prague-Hamburg research talks |
| S9 | Sebastian Beschke: Grammar Learning for Open-Domain Semantic Parsing |
| Arne Köhn: Predictive Dependency Parsing | |
| Amr Rekaby: Cross-Modal Integration for Improved Dependency Parsing | |
| David Mareček: Unsupervised Dependency Parsing | |
| 12.35-13.30 | lunch (if pre-booked or you fit) |
| 13.30-15.00 | MTM Lecture: Syntax-Based Models and Decoding |
| S9 | Hieu Hoang (New York University, Abu Dhabi) |
| Extra slides on Non-Projectivity and Constituency vs. Dependency Trees (Ondřej Bojar, Charles University in Prague) | |
| 15.20-16.25 | Prague-Hamburg research talks |
| S1 | Cristina Vertan: Multilinguality in Historical Texts - Applying Language Technology for Cultural Heritage |
| Timo Baumann: Timing in Interactive Speech-to-Speech translation | |
| Jan Hajič: The LINDAT/CLARIN large infrastructure: data and services | |
| Closing of Prague-Hamburg workshop | |
| Saturday | |
| 9.00-10.30 | Closing , Project reports |
| S9 | see slides (username and password: mtm) |
| 11.00-12.30 | Project reports (Part II) |
| S9 | |
| 12.30-14.00 | lunch (if pre-booked or you fit) |
| 14.00-15.30 | Project reports (Part III, if needed; no coffee afterwards!) |
| S9 |