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Schedule is subject to change

Week Date Topic Readings (★=graduate level; ⓘ=recommended supplemental)
1 Jan 17 Course overview and required tools
1 Jan 19 Introduction to Machine Translation
2 Jan 24 Universal Language in the 17th century
2 Jan 26 Machine Translation in the 1930s
3 Jan 31 Machine Translation in the 1940s
3 Feb 02 1948-1950 The Noisy Channel Model
4 Feb 07 1951-1952 - Academic MT Research Begins
4 Feb 09 1954-1966 The Decade of Optimism
5 Feb 14 1966 - The ALPAC Report
5 Feb 16 Approaches to MT: The Vauquois Triangle
6 Feb 21 Interlingual Machine Translation
6 Feb 23 AI and the Turing Test
7 Feb 28 The Chinese Room
7 Mar 02 Exam review
8 Mar 07 No class
8 Mar 09 Mid-term Exam
9 Mar 14 MT in the U.S. Government
9 Mar 16 No class
10 Mar 21 Spring Break
10 Mar 23 Spring Break
11 Mar 28 Statistical Word-Based MT
11 Mar 30 Statistical Phrase-Based MT
12 Apr 04 Decoding
12 Apr 06 Language Models
13 Apr 11 Tree-Based Models
13 Apr 13 Free MT on the Internet
14 Apr 18 MT at Autodesk
14 Apr 20 Evaluating Machine Translation
15 Apr 25 The Future of MT
15 Apr 27 Exam review
16 May 02 Final exam