[webMeetup] A Casual Q&A Session on Machine Translation

Join the 56th NLP Zurich tech shindig 24 November 2021 online. Mathias Müller will host a casual Q&A session on machine translation. We are looking forward to welcoming you!
Agenda

17:55 Join the webMeetup
18:00 Mathias Müller: A Casual Q&A session on machine translation
18:35 Q&A
18:50 Virtual Hugs and Kisses ⊂(◉‿◉)つ

Talk summary:
This event will be an open and casual Q&A on machine translation. Questions can be brought in spontaneously or submitted prior to the event:

https://www.dory.app/c/a6505ec9/b9a9aa88_nlp-meetup-casual-q-a-on-machine-translation

, where they can also be upvoted by other participants. During the session the topics will be prioritised according to the upvotes.

Examples for relevant questions:

• What important breakthroughs in research happened this year?
• What is “neural” about neural machine translation?
• What are the biggest challenges for machine translation at the moment?
• How much training data is Google Translate trained on?
• How does one make a translation system multilingual?
• What is the best way to get started with learning how machine translation systems work internally?

About the speaker:
Mathias is a post-doc and lecturer at the University of Zurich. His current main interests are 1) the meta-sciences of scientific integrity, methodology and reproducibility applied to machine translation, 2) decoding algorithms and 3) sign language translation. In his personal life he is a father of two and a passionate musician. Please find more information about him here: cl.uzh.ch/mmueller

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