[Colloquium] Research at TTIC: Kevin Gimpel

[Dawn Ellis]

When:     Friday,  March 8th at Noon

Where:    TTIC, 6045 S Kenwood Avenue, 5th
               Floor, Room #526

Who:       Kevin Gimpel

Title:       Improving Statistical Machine Translation

Abstract:

I'll describe two ways to improve the quality of machine translation
systems and make them more useful for users.  In the first part of the
talk, I'll talk about generating multiple, diverse translations of each
input sentence.  Diverse translations lead to improved results in
discriminative reranking and enable human post-editors to make sense of
noisy output.  In the second part, I'll present generative models for
unsupervised discovery of gappy patterns in monolingual and bilingual text.
 These models can be used to extract salient patterns from a corpus, which
are then incorporated into a translation system to improve handling of
long-distance dependencies in translation output.
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*Dawn Ellis*
Administrative Assistant
773-834-1757
dellis at ttic.edu

TTIC
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Chicago, IL. 60637
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