Institute for Translation and Interpreting, Heidelberg University

Winter Semester 2020-2021

LSF 330838 Translation Technologies

MA main seminar, 1st or 3rd semester Translations- und Kulturwissenschaft I und II: Translation Technologies, MA, 1st Sem or 3rd Sem, 6 Credit Points, Main seminar, Tue. 13:15 to 14:45
LSF
Course description
Course syllabus

This on-line English language course is offered to students of Universität Heidelberg, partner universities of our 4EU+ Alliance and partners of our Cooperative Network Philotrans. See this pdf document for the complete list of courses and registration details

Virtual Seminar Room

We start this course on-line. Please join our Seminar Room:
https://heiconf.uni-heidelberg.de/bab-eeq-ax3
on Tuesday, 13:15 Central European Time. If any problems with computer audio, you can also dial in via the phone: +49 6221 431 0 410, and then enter Phone PIN: 4341-9332-8165

Submission of course assessment

If you take the course for credit, please submit your case study / report / essay via HeiBox: https://heibox.uni-heidelberg.de/u/d/eb5e97279d2f41eba769/ Please submit you work by 23.03.2021. (if you need an extension, please let me know)

Marking criteria and example topics https://heibox.uni-heidelberg.de/d/e369aa3a8c524719a486/

Pre-recorded presentations

Aditi Rao: Manning, C. D., & Schütze, H. 1999. Chapter 5, Sections 5.3, and 5.4 in Collocations in: Manning, C. D., & Schütze, H. (1999). Foundations of statistical natural language processing. MIT press. https://1drv.ms/v/s!ArnoXKT1QkN3cuvMpkJ_zuwLxyk?e=WB3x8D Link:

Ekaterini Dimitriou: Rey, A. 1995. Chapter 2: Theoretical Issues in Terminology. In: Rey, A., Sager, J. C., & de Bessé, B. (1995). Essays on terminology (Vol. 9, p. 222). J. Benjamins. https://1drv.ms/p/s!AphEALR4SKLRkzy5LB5OdniO2W5T?e=zzRPCF

Course materials

Week01: 02 Nov – 08 Nov 2020: Course Introduction

Introduction: Please fill in this google form: https://forms.gle/a3KVMm6bUZHWCK8j9
Channel on Slack (you will receive invitation via email): lsf330838-translation-technologies
Additional materials - overview of technologies: pdf, pptx https://heibox.uni-heidelberg.de/d/10629b03d7514ecd866a/
Lecture slides w01 - Introduction: pdf, pptx https://heibox.uni-heidelberg.de/d/f18b6065ae04475d981e/
Video recording of the class: https://youtu.be/41bU19W4xmc

Week02: 09 Nov – 15 Nov 2020:

Lecture slides w02 - Introduction: pdf, pptx https://heibox.uni-heidelberg.de/d/3ea4ead146e9420e9832/
Video recording of the class: https://youtu.be/pmDCTxEgreg

Week03: 16 Nov – 22 Nov 2020:

Please create your github account and your repository for the course and send me the link. Thanks!
Register your alignment project here: Google Spreadsheet https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1r7zUYx9pMOQ0mV6qX2TX02JWhUBQL2IP0U2AaafOnpI/edit?usp=sharing
Video recording of the class: https://youtu.be/6VPXlQpAXMc
Lecture slides w03 pdf, pptx https://heibox.uni-heidelberg.de/d/2bc4abb37070491f80fa/

Week04: 23 Nov – 29 Nov 2020:

Video recording of the class: https://youtu.be/KYUPhPiFQ2s

Week05: 30 Nov – 06 Dec 2020:

Video recording of the class: https://youtu.be/odAhcUlJm-o

Week06: 07 Dec – 13 Dec 2020:

Link to recommended video lectures: https://www.dnb.de/EN/Ueber-uns/EU-Ratspraesidentschaft/translatingEuropeVortraege.html?nn=718448
Video recording of the demo of creating memsource project with admin rights https://youtu.be/Ia7oZ2TZr9A

Week07: 14 Dec – 20 Dec 2020:

Video recording of the class: https://youtu.be/qY9bvuQX0SM
Literature and assessment folder: https://heibox.uni-heidelberg.de/d/2601f839d4a9480ca28a/
Link to sign-up sheet to presentations Google Doc

Christmas break: 21 Dec – 10 Jan (3 weeks, no classes)

Week08: 11 Jan – 17 Jan 2021:

Video recording of the class: https://youtu.be/sTUea6xdAm0

Week09: 18 Jan – 24 Jan 2021:

Video recording of the class: https://youtu.be/rWnPu8N42lg

Week10: 25 Jan – 31 Jan 2021:

Video recording of the class: presentation https://youtu.be/jIsMEF5Vyxo

Week11: 01 Feb – 07 Feb 2021:

Video recording of the class: presentation https://youtu.be/xtB44d2Ryzs
Video recording: ADVANCED off-line presentation: Intro to Python scripting: dictionary from corpus https://youtu.be/LZDNpAcbYJc; Scripts and datafiles can be downloaded from GitHub https://github.com/bogdanbabych/LSF-330838-Translation-Technologies (in the command line, move to the directory where you wish to download the code and type: “git clone https://github.com/bogdanbabych/LSF-330838-Translation-Technologies.git):

Week12: 08 Feb – 14 Feb 2021: Machine Translation: Automate evaluation – exercise handout. Please do the experiment at home https://heibox.uni-heidelberg.de/d/08fb2e2e061a4eb9adf5/

Please upload your table with the results + comments/observations before the next class onto HeiBox: https://heibox.uni-heidelberg.de/u/d/e4c0c840da114760b40f/

Slides of the presentation: https://heibox.uni-heidelberg.de/d/479e02dd9e7b47a39d3b/
Video recording of the class: https://youtu.be/BpfHSm0_iRU

Week13: 15 Feb – 21 Feb 2021:

Video recording of the class: https://youtu.be/1oxmflaXrW8
link to MT evaluation lab: http://corpus.leeds.ac.uk/corpuslabs/lab2021transtech/
link to human MT evaluation handout https://heibox.uni-heidelberg.de/d/92b66395614547cb8924/

Week14: 22 Feb – 28 Feb 2021:

Video recording of the class: https://youtu.be/VrAbkUV4MMI
Recording: brief introduction into statistical methods (Research Methods Seminar) https://youtu.be/W7lWYGLYy20
Additional materials on MT evaluation https://heibox.uni-heidelberg.de/d/1f1ef0ddfee54ef6905f/