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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Dear All<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I have been asked to circulate the attached invitation to all.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Catherine<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> Marjorie Dunlop [<a href="mailto:mdunlop2@staffmail.ed.ac.uk">mailto:mdunlop2@staffmail.ed.ac.uk</a>] <br><b>Sent:</b> 19 February 2013 15:42<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:contact-facultyofscience@strath.ac.uk">contact-facultyofscience@strath.ac.uk</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Inaugural Lecture/Professor Philipp Koehn/Thursday, 21 March 2013<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=moz-txt-tag>Hello</span><br><br><span class=moz-txt-tag>I would be grateful if you would circulate this invitation and display the attached poster.</span><br><br><span class=moz-txt-tag>Many thanks</span><br><span class=moz-txt-tag>Marjorie</span><br><br><span class=moz-txt-tag><b>*</b></span><b>Inaugural Lecture<span class=moz-txt-tag>*</span></b> <br>Chaired by the Head of the College of Science and Engineering, <br>Professor Lesley J. Yellowlees <br><br>"Open Problems in Machine Translation" <br><br>given by <br><br>Professor Philipp Koehn <br>Personal Chair of Machine Translation <br><br>Thursday, 21 March 2013, 5:15 pm <br><br>Informatics Forum, G.07/G.07A<br>10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB <br><br>and afterwards for a <br>Reception in the Informatics Forum<br>10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB<br><br>All welcome to attend. <br>(RSVP Marjorie Dunlop <a href="mailto:mdunlop2@inf.ed.ac.uk">mdunlop2@inf.ed.ac.uk</a>) <br><br><br><span class=moz-txt-tag><b>*</b></span><b>ABSTRACT<span class=moz-txt-tag>*</span></b> <br>Statistical Machine Translation has made great progress over the last years. I will survey the field and some of my recent work on modelling, parameter training and efficient handling of large models, with a focus on the current open problems and promising directions to address them. <o:p></o:p></p><pre>-- <o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Marjorie Dunlop<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>School of Informatics<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>University of Edinburgh<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Informatics Forum, Room 5.41<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>10 Crichton Street<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Edinburgh EH8 9AB<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>Phone: +44 (0) 131 650 2690<o:p></o:p></pre></div></body></html>