Calendar

Aug 31-Sep 4

Introduction

Topics:	Overview of course
	Words, grammar, and compositionality (PDF, Keynote)

Topics:	Units, composition, and multiple languages
Topics:	Statistical and knowledge-based methods
Discussion:	Statistical and knowledge-based methods

Sep 7-11

Introduction

Topics:	Lexicons
Topics:	Grammars
Discussion:	What goes in the lexicon?

Topic:	How languages differ from and resemble one another
	Two examples: "The Surprise" (En/Sp), "The Letter" (En/Jp)

Sep 14-18

Multilingual ontologies and IR

Topic:

Lexical databases and ontologies

Topic:	WordNets
Reading:	Fellbaum and Vossen, discussant: Ross

Assignment:

Project proposal (due at midnight)

Sep 21-25

Multilingual ontologies and IR

Topic:	Semantic space
Reading:	Ploux and Ji, discussants: Aaron, Yin

Topic:	Lexical differences
Reading:	Majid et al., discussant: Amber

Sep 28-Oct 2

Multilingual ontologies and IR

Topic:	Formalizing ontology creation
Reading:	Welty and Guarino, discussants: Wren, Jiayi

Topic:	CLIR
Reading:	Nguyen et al., discussant: Scott

Oct 5-9

Multilingual ontologies and IR

Topic:	CLIR
Reading:	Oard, discussant: Lwin

Topic:	Ontology localization
Reading:	Espinoza et al., discussant: Jun

Oct 12-16

Multilingual ontologies and IR

Topic:	Event tracking
Reading:	Pouliquen et al., discussant: Kejkaew

Topic:	Event tracking
Reading:	Ma et al., discussant: Alex
Assignment:	Midterm evaluation

Oct 19-23

Translation

Topic:

Overview of classical MT

Topic:	Early statistical machine translation
Reading:	Knight, optional: Brown et al., discussant: Wren
Discussion:	Multilingual ontologies and IR

Assignment:

Project progress report (due at midnight)

Oct 26-30

Translation

Topic:	Some more background on SMT
Reading:	Mariño et al., discussant: Yin

Topic:	Phrase-based MT
Reading:	Och and Ney, discussant: Alex

Nov 2-6

Translation

Topic:	Syntactic MT
Reading:	Chiang, discussant: Aaron

Topic:	Tree adjoining grammar
Readings:	Shieber, discussant: Jun
Readings:	DeNeefe and Knight, notes

Nov 9-13

Translation

Topic:	Syntactic MT
Topic:	Ontologies revisited
Reading:	Marcu et al., discussant: Ross, background on tree transducers: Graehl et al.

Topic:	Minimizing MT error
Reading:	Kumar and Byrne, discussant: Kejkaew

Nov 16-20

Translation

Topic:	WSD in MT
Reading:	Carpuat and Wu, discussant: Lwin

Topic:	Non-parallel corpora in MT
Reading:	Munteanu and Marcu, discussant: Scott

Nov 23-27

Translation

Topic:	Morphology in MT
Reading:	Avramidis and Koehn, discussant: Amber
Assignment:	Project progress report

Nov 25-27

Thanksgiving Break

Nov 30-Dec 4

Translation / Language learning and teaching

Topic:	Word translation
Reading:	Pekar et al., discussant: Jiayi

Topic:	Student models in ICALL
Topic:	Second language acquisition
Reading:	Amaral and Meuers, discussant: Ross

Dec 7-11

Language learning and teaching

Topic:	Intelligent tutoring in ICALL, reading and writing
Reading:	Sisson, discussant: Scott

Topic:	NLP in ICALL
Reading:	Nagata, discussant: Lwin
Discussion:	Machine translation

Fin

Dec 14-18

Assignment:

Oral project reports (2:45-4:45pm)
Written project reports due at midnight

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