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Program

Monday, May 21

8:00-8:45 Registration
8:45-9:00 Welcome
9:00-9:15 Lecture: Machine Translation - Introduction and History - Lane Schwartz
9:15-10:00 Lecture: Deep Learning and Computation Graphs - Graham Neubig
10:00-10:30 Lecture: Computation Graphs and Deep Learning Compilers - Lane Schwartz
10:30-10:45 Coffee Break
10:45-11:30 Project Proposals
11:30-12:00 Project Allocation
12:00-2:00 Lunch
2:00-2:30 Talk: What's New in the Sockeye NMT Toolkit? - Michael Denkowski
2:30- Projects

Tuesday, May 22

9:00-9:45 Lecture: Neural language models - Jeremy Gwinnup
9:45-10:30 Lecture: Neural translation models - Philipp Koehn
10:30-10:45 Coffee Break
10:45-11:30 Talk: Corpus curation and cleanup - Jeremy Gwinnup
11:30-1:00 Lunch
1:00-3:30 Projects
3:30-4:00 Cookie Break
4:00- Projects

Wednesday, May 23

9:00-9:45 Lecture: Advanced Translation Models - Ken Heafield
9:45-10:30 Lecture: Domain Adaptation - Kevin Duh
10:30-10:45 Coffee Break
10:45-12:00 Mid-Week Project Reports
12:00-2:00 Lunch
2:00-3:30 Projects
3:30-3:45 Cookie Break
4:00- Projects

Thursday, May 24

9:00-9:45 Talk: Semantic and Stylistic Variations in Machine Translation - Marine Carpuat
9:45-10:30 Talk: Towards Flexible but Controllable Language Generation - Yulia Tsvetkov
10:30-10:45 Coffee Break
10:45-11:30 Talk: Human Evaluation and Human Parity for Chinese-English News Translation
  - Christian Federmann
11:30-1:30 Lunch
1:30-3:30 Projects
3:30-3:45 Cookie Break
4:00- Projects
5:00-7:00 Social Event: Visit to Amazon

Friday, May 25

9:00-10:30 Projects / Project Final Report Prep
10:30-10:45 Coffee Break
10:45-12:00 Project Final Reports
12:00-1:30 Lunch
1:30-5:00 Projects / Adjourn