We meet in Hackerman 306 at 10am every Thursday
Shuoyang, Pamela, Arya, Kevin, Becky, Philipp, Brian, Huda, Rebecca, Adi, Xutai, Gaurav | Matt
Day | Presenter | Topic |
Apr 26 | Gaurav Kumar | |
Apr 19 | Xutai Ma | Gu, et. al. (AAAI2018) Search Engine Guided Neural Machine Translation, Zhang, et. al. (NAACL2018) Guiding Neural Machine Translation with Retrieved Translation Pieces |
Apr 12 | Adi Renduchintala | Yang, et. al. (NAACL2018): https://arxiv.org/pdf/1703.04887.pdf |
Apr 5 | Rebecca Knowles | Current research |
Mar 29 | Huda/Brian/Kevin | Current research |
Mar 22 | no meeting | |
Mar 15 | Becky Marvin & Steven Shearing | AMTA practice talks |
Mar 8 | Kevin Duh | Huang, et. al. (ICLR2018): Towards Neural Phrase-based Machine Translation |
Mar 1 | Arya McCarthy | Wang et al. (2018): Translating Pro-Drop Languages with Reconstruction Models |
Feb 22 | Pamela Shapiro | Belinkov and Bisk (2018): Synthetic and Natural Noise Both Break Neural Machine Translation |
Feb 15 | Shuoyang Ding | Gu et al. (2018): Non-Autoregressive Neural Machine Translation |
Feb 8 | Juri Ganitkevitch | Juri Ganitkevitch PhD defense (9am, Malone 107): Large-Scale Paraphrasing for Text-to-Text Generation |
Feb 1 | Gaurav Kumar | Artetxe et al. (2017): Unsupervised Neural Machine Translation |
Day | Presenter | Topic |
Dec 13 | Xutai Ma/Shuoyang Ding | Current research |
Dec 6 | Adi Renduchintala | He et al. (NIPS 2016): Dual Learning for Machine Translation |
Nov 29 | Philipp Koehn | Ghader and Monz (IJCNLP 2017): What does Attention in Neural Machine Translation Pay Attention to? |
Nov 22 | No meeting: Thanksgiving break | |
Nov 15 | Huda Khayrallah | Practice Talk |
Nov 8 | Pamela Shapiro | Artxetxe et al. (ACL 2017): Learning bilingual word embeddings with (almost) no bilingual data |
Nov 1 | Becky Marvin | Nguyen and Chiang. (2017). Improving Lexical Choice in Neural Machine Translation |
Oct 25 | Rebecca Knowles | Carpuat et. al. (2017). Detecting Cross-Lingual Semantic Divergence for Neural Machine Translation |
Oct 18 | Cancelled | MATERIAL Kickoff meeting |
Oct 11 | Kevin Duh | Britz. et. al. (2017). Massive Exploration of Neural Machine Translation Architectures |
Oct 4 | everybody | 5-10 minute research presentations |
Sep 27 | Shuoyang Ding | Niehues et al. 2017: Analyzing Neural MT Search and Model Performance Freitag and Al-Onaizan 2017: Beam Search Strategies for Neural Machine Translation |
Sep 20 | Cancelled | |
Sep 13 | Xutai Ma | Rios et al. 2017: Improving Word Sense Disambiguation in Neural Machine Translation with Sense Embeddings |
Sep 6 | Gaurav Kumar | Goyal, Dyer and Berg-Kirkpatrick: Differentiable Scheduled Sampling for Credit Assignment |
Day | Presenter | Topic |
August 23 | Discussion of WMT & ACL | |
July 26 | Gaurav Kumar | Dayu Yuan, Ryan Doherty, Julian Richardson, Colin Evans, Eric Altendorf: Word Sense Disambiguation with Neural Language Models |
July 19 | Adam Poliak | Pado and Lapata (Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research 36 (2009)) Cross-lingual Annotation Projection of Semantic Roles |
July 12 | Rebecca Knowles | Maarten van Gompel and Antal van den Bosch (ACL 2014): Translation Assistance by Translation of L1 Fragments in an L2 Context and Eva Hasler (SemEval 2014): UEdin: Translating L1 Phrases in L2 Context using Context-Sensitive SMT |
June 28 | Philipp Koehn | Research update: Neural machine translation and computer aided translation |
June 14 | Huda Khayrallah | Ke Tran, Arianna Bisazza and Christof Monz (NAACL 2016): Recurrent Memory Networks for Language Modeling |
June 7 | Huda Khayrallah | Andrej Karpathy, Justin Johnson, Li Fei-Fei (ICLR Workshop 2016): Visualizing and Understanding Recurrent Networks |
May 24 | Discussion of MT Marathon in the Americas | |
May 17 | MT Marathon in the Americas |
Day | Presenter | Topic |
May 10 | Rebecca Knowles | Marco Turchi, Matteo Negri, Marcello Federico (ACL 2015): MT Quality Estimation for Computer-assisted Translation: Does it Really Help? |
May 3 | Philipp Koehn | Tips and tricks: living the Unix life and running experiments on the CLSP cluster |
Apr 26 | Amittai Axelrod | Orhan Firat, Kyunghyun Cho, and Yoshua Bengio (NAACL 2016): Multi-Way, Multilingual Neural Machine Translation with a Shared Attention Mechanism |
April 19 | Kevin Duh | Kai Zhao, Hany Hassan, and Michael Auli (NAACL2015): Learning Translation Models from Monolingual Continuous Representations, Lei Yao and Grzegorz Kondrak (NAACL2015): Joint Generation of Transliterations from Multiple Representations |
April 12 | Maria Nadejde | Current work |
April 5 | Adam Poliak | Durrett and DeNero : Supervised Learning of Complete Morphological Paradigms |
Mar 29 | Adi Renduchintala | Something super interesting (donuts provided) |
Mar 22 | Huda Khayrallah | Faruqui et al. : Morphological Inflection Generation Using Character Sequence to Sequence Learning |
Mar 15 | Biman Gujral | Current Research |
Mar 8 | Matt Post | Current Research |
Mar 1 | Adi Renduchintala | Grefenstette et al. : Learning to Transduce with Unbounded Memory |
Feb 23 | Kyunghyun Cho | Seminar Visit |
Feb 16 | Shuoyang Ding | Sennrich et al. : Improving Neural Machine Translation Models with Monolingual Data |
Feb 9 | Gaurav Kumar | Shen et al. : Minimum Risk Training for Neural Machine Translation |
Feb 2 | Rebecca Knowles | Stein, Schmidt, and Ney: Sign Language Machine Translation Overkill |
Day | Presenter | Topic |
Dec 8 | Hainan Xu | Taghipour et al. Parallel Corpus Refinement as an Outlier Detection Algorithm |
Dec 1 | Brian Ho | Luong et al. Effective Approaches to Attention-based Neural Machine Translation |
Nov 17 | Kevin Duh | Levinboim and Chiang: Supervised Phrase Table Triangulation with Neural Word Embeddings for Low-Resource Languages |
Nov 10 | Amittai Axelrod | Class-Based N-gram Language Difference Models for Data Selection |
Nov 3 | Biman Gujral | Tsvetkov et al. Lexicon stratification for translating out-of-vocabulary words |
Oct 27 | Huda Khayrallah | Sennrich et al. Neural Machine Translation of Rare Words with Subword Units |
Oct 20 | Matt Post | Pashto speech translation (MT Summit invited keynote preview) |
Oct 13 | Shuoyang Ding | Yu and Zhu (ACL 2015): Recurrent Neural Network based Rule Sequence Model for Statistical Machine Translation Vaswani et al. (ACL 2011): Rule Markov Models for Fast Tree-to-String Translation |
Oct 6 | Philipp Koehn | Updates on CommonCrawl project |
Sep 29 | Gaurav Kumar | Work from the JSALT workshop |
Sep 15 | Adi Renduchintala | Stanojevic and Sima'an (EMNLP 2015): Reordering Grammar Induction |
Day | Presenter | Topic |
Neural Networks | ||
Dec 16 | Matt Post | Minkov et al. (2007): Generating Complex Morphology for Machine Translation, Toutanova et al. (2008): Applying Morphology Generation Models to Machine Translation |
Dec 2 | Philipp Koehn | Introduction to Morphology and Machine Translation |
Nov 18 | Adi Renduchintala | Theano neural network toolkit |
Nov 11 | Philipp Koehn | Sundermeyer et al. (2014): Translation Modeling with Bidirectional Recurrent Neural Networks |
Nov 4 | Shuoyang Ding | Lu et al. (2014): Learning New Semi-Supervised Deep Auto-encoder Features for Statistical Machine Translation |
Oct 28 | Adithya Renduchintala | Yang et al. (2013): Word Alignment Modeling with Context Dependent Deep Neural Network |
Oct 21 | Matt Post | Liu et al. (2014): A Recursive Recurrent Neural Network for Statistical Machine Translation |
Oct 7 | Adithya Renduchintala | Vaswani et al. (2013): Decoding with Large-Scale NLMs |
Sep 30 | Adam Lopez | Ammar et al., CRF Autoencoders |
Sep 23 | Philipp Koehn | Zhang et al (2014): Bilingually-constrained Phrase Embeddings for Machine Translation; Liu et al (2014): A Recursive Recurrent Neural Network for Statistical Machine Translation |
Sep 16 | Naomi Saphra, Adam Lopez | More AMR workshop results; Auli and Gao (2014): Expected BLEU training of RNNs |
Sep 9 | Adam Lopez | Kalchbrenner and Blunsom (2013): Recurrent continuous translation models |
Short Intermission: Semantics | ||
Aug 26 | Adi Renduchintala | More AMR workshop results based on Flanigan et al. (2014): A Discriminative Graph-Based Parser for the Abstract Meaning Representation |
Aug 19 | Adam Lopez | Report from the workshop on Cross-Lingual Abstract Meaning Representations (CLAMR) for Machine Translation |
Neural Networks | ||
Aug 12 | Dan Povey | Neural network language models in speech recognition |
Aug 5 | Adam Lopez | Devlin et al. (2014): Fast and Robust Neural Network Joint Models for Statistical Machine Translation, pdf |
July 29 | Philipp Koehn | Bengio et al. (2003): A Neural Probabilistic Language Model, pdf |
July 22 | Philipp Koehn | Introduction to Neural Networks, handout |
Semantics | ||
July 8 | Matt Post | Anonymous (unpublished): A Variant of CYK+ for Decoding with Large SCFGs |
July 1 | Adam Lopez | Stephen Clark, Julia Hockenmaier and Mark Steedman (2002): Building Deep Dependency Structures with a Wide-Coverage CCG Parser, pdf |
June 17 | Philipp Koehn | Abstract Meaning Representations |
June 10 | Maria Nadejde | State of the Art Syntax-Based Translation, Edinburgh Syntax System at WMT 2014 |
June 3 | Naomi Saphra | David Chiang et al. (2013): Parsing Graphs with Hyperedge Replacement Grammars, ACL, pdf |
May 20 | Adam Lopez | Bevan Jones et al. (2013): Semantics-Based Machine Translation with Hyperedge Replacement Grammars, pdf |
Syntax Decoding | ||
May 13 | Adam Lopez | Mark Hopkins and Greg Langmead (2009): Cube Pruning as Heuristic Search, ACL, pdf |
May 6 | Philipp Koehn | Heafield, Kenneth and Koehn, Philipp and Lavie, Alon (2013): Grouping Language Model Boundary Words to Speed K--Best Extraction from Hypergraphs, NAACL, pdf |
April 29 | Matt Post | DeNero, John and Bansal, Mohit and Pauls, Adam and Klein, Dan (2009): Efficient Parsing for Transducer Grammars, NAACL, pdf |
April 22 | Philipp Koehn | Hopkins, Mark and Langmead, Greg (2010): SCFG Decoding Without Binarization, EMNLP, pdf |
April 15 | Philipp Koehn | Syntax-Based Model Decoding, notes |
March 18 | Adam Lopez | Pushdown Automata in Statistical Machine Translation, Hierarchical Phrase-Based Translation Representations |
March 6 | Philipp Koehn | Inaugural meeting, notes |