Machine Translation and Semantic Parsing

This Tuesday, we will cover machine translation. Please read chapter 2 of the textbook from Eugene's class:

• Eugene Charniak and Mark Johnson.  Introduction to Computational Linguistics. Chapter 2: Machine Translation.

Thursday's class will be a guest lecture from Yoav Artsi.   There are two readings:

• Yoav Artzi and Luke Zettlemoyer.  Weakly Supervised Learning of Semantic Parsers for Mapping Instructions to Actions.  Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL), 2013.

If you find that one too dense, then this paper might unpack things: 

• Luke Zettlemoyer and Michael Collins. Learning to Map Sentences to Logical Form: Structured Classification with Probabilistic Categorial Grammars.
  In Proceedings of the Twenty First Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI), 2005.