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NL Seminar- Malte Nuhn "Is Decipherment Difficult"

Speaker: Malte Nuhn, Aachen University, Germany

Talk Title: "Is Decipherment Difficult"

Series: Natural Language Seminar

Abstract: Abstract: Is it possible to learn useful translations from large amounts of monolingual data to improve machine translation? The intuitive feeling is that learning a language without bilingual data is at least "more difficult than learning from example translations". In this talk, I will present recent results on decipherment: I will show that the decipherment problem is indeed difficult (NP-hard) and what approximations to the original problem can be made without hurting decipherment accuracy much.




Biography: Bio: Having studied Physics and Computer Science at RWTH Aachen University, I'm currently a PhD student at Prof. Ney's Human Language Technology and Pattern Recognition Group in Aachen. I'm particularly interested in applying decipherment techniques to improve machine translation.

Homepage:
http://www-i6.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/~nuhn/

Host: Kevin Knight and Qing Dou

More Info: http://nlg.isi.edu/nl-seminar/

Location: Information Science Institute (ISI) - Marina Del Rey-11th Flr Conf Rm # 1135

Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

Contact: Peter Zamar

Event Link: http://nlg.isi.edu/nl-seminar/