Course Weekly Lecture Plan

Week	Topic
1	Introduction, Problematic Issues in Translation, History of Machine Translation
2	Recent Machine Translation Methods
3	Computer Aided Human Translation
4	Evaluating Machine Translation Quality : Human Evaluation, Automatic Evaluation Methods : BLEU, METEOR metrics
5	Transfer Based Translation Methods (I) Direct Transfer, Syntactic Transfer, Semantic Transfer
6	Transfer Based Translation Methods (II) Interlingua Based Translation
7	Example-Based Machine Translation
8	Statistical Machine Translation (I) Translation Mechanism, Language Modelling for Statistical Machine Translation
9	Statistical Machine Translation (II) Translation Model, Phrase Based Models, Alignment Methods
10	Statistical Machine Translation (III)Decoding
11	Syntactical Statistical Machine Translation
12	Spoken Language Translation
13	Machine Translation Between Closely Related Languages
14	Commercial Translation Engines and Future Projections on Machine Translation