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<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Washington</strong><br />
Ling472 Introduction to Computational Linguistics<br />
Lecture 1:<br />
Introduction<br />
Statistical Natural Language Processing<br />
• Large gains in practical application <strong>of</strong> stochastic methods in<br />
the past 15 years<br />
• Example: MT<br />
– Micros<strong>of</strong>t Bing Translator<br />
– Google translate<br />
– GIZA++/Moses SMT toolkit<br />
• Insight: clever math—with limited linguistic motivation—can<br />
work surprisingly well<br />
These improvements are not just due to Moore’s law<br />
Monday, April 1, 2013<br />
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