[Academic] FW: Inaugural Lecture/Professor Philipp Koehn/Thursday, 21 March 2013

[Catherine Cheshire]

Dear All

I have been asked to circulate the attached invitation to all.

Catherine

From: Marjorie Dunlop [mailto:mdunlop2 at staffmail.ed.ac.uk]
Sent: 19 February 2013 15:42
To: contact-facultyofscience at strath.ac.uk<mailto:contact-facultyofscience at strath.ac.uk>
Subject: Inaugural Lecture/Professor Philipp Koehn/Thursday, 21 March 2013

Hello

I would be grateful if you would circulate this invitation and display the attached poster.

Many thanks
Marjorie

*Inaugural Lecture*
Chaired by the Head of the College of Science and Engineering,
Professor Lesley J. Yellowlees

"Open Problems in Machine Translation"

given by

Professor Philipp Koehn
Personal Chair of Machine Translation

Thursday, 21 March 2013, 5:15 pm

Informatics Forum, G.07/G.07A
10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB

and afterwards for a
Reception in the Informatics Forum
10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB

All welcome to attend.
(RSVP Marjorie Dunlop mdunlop2 at inf.ed.ac.uk<mailto:mdunlop2 at inf.ed.ac.uk>)


*ABSTRACT*
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.

--

Marjorie Dunlop

School of Informatics

University of Edinburgh

Informatics Forum, Room 5.41

10 Crichton Street

Edinburgh  EH8 9AB



Phone: +44 (0) 131 650 2690
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