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NL Seminar-More than the sum of their parts: Translating idioms without destroying their meaning
Thu, Sep 05, 2019 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Information Sciences Institute
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Denis Emelin and Prince Wang, USC/ISI
Talk Title: More than the sum of their parts: Translating idioms without destroying their meaning
Series: Natural Language Seminar
Abstract: Translating idioms is hard. As low-frequency linguistic events with a non compositional meaning, idiomatic expressions are at odds with contemporary neural machine translation methods. Accordingly, the literal translation of idiomatic phrases which fails to preserve their semantic content represents an often observed failure case in NMT models. To facilitate future work on idiom translation, the current project sets out to compile a large-coverage, multilingual corpus of parallel sentences containing idiomatic expressions, augmented with their respective monolingual definitions. With this resource in hand, we next aim to propose models which can effectively exploit idiom definitions to avoid literal translation errors. As part of the evaluation of the constructed corpus, we demonstrate that idioms continue to pose a veritable challenge for state of the art NMT models.
Biography: Denis is a second-year PhD candidate at the University of Edinburgh, advised by Dr. Rico Sennrich. His background is in machine translation, natural language understanding, and linguistics.
Host: Emily Sheng
More Info: https://nlg.isi.edu/nl-seminar
Webcast: https://bluejeans.com/s/8Lu7w/Location: Information Science Institute (ISI) - CR #689
WebCast Link: https://bluejeans.com/s/8Lu7w/
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Peter Zamar
Event Link: https://nlg.isi.edu/nl-seminar
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Internship/Job Search Open Forum
Thu, Sep 05, 2019 @ 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Increase your career and internship knowledge on the job/internship search by attending this professional development Q&A moderated by Viterbi Career Connections staff or Viterbi employer partners.
For more information about Labs & Open Forums, please visit viterbicareers.usc.edu/workshops.
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 211
Audiences: All Viterbi Students
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Connections
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Viterbi Impact Program Info Session
Thu, Sep 05, 2019 @ 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Workshops & Infosessions
Interested in volunteering?
Come and learn about the Viterbi Impact Program (VIP). VIP participants play an important role in bringing engineering to the community as they work as partners with local schools and organizations.Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 211
Audiences: Undergrad
Contact: Myra Fernandez
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Albert Dorman Lecture Series: Guest Speaker - Mrs. Debra Reed-Klages
Thu, Sep 05, 2019 @ 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Debra Reed-Klages , Sempra Energy
Talk Title: Q & A with Debra Reed-Klages
Host: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 526
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Salina Palacios
