Statistical Machine Translation

Introduction to Statistical MT Research

• The Mathematics of Statistical Machine Translation by Brown, Della Petra, Della Pietra, and Mercer
• Statistical MT Handbook by Kevin Knight
• SMT Tutorial (2003) by Kevin Knight and Philipp Koehn
• ESSLLI Summer Course on SMT (2005), day1, 2, 3, 4, 5 by Chris Callison-Burch and Philipp Koehn.
• MT Archive by John Hutchins, electronic repository and bibliography of articles, books and papers on topics in machine translation and computer-based translation tools

Conferences and Workshops

Software

• Giza++ a training tool for IBM Model 1-5 (version for gcc-4)
• Moses, a complete SMT system
• UCAM-SMT, the Cambridge Statistical Machine Translation system
• Phrasal, a toolkit for phrase-based SMT
• cdec, a decoder for syntax-based SMT
• Joshua, a decoder for syntax-based SMT
• Jane, decoder for syntax-based SMT
• Pharaoh a decoder for phrase-based SMT
• Rewrite a decoder for IBM Model 4
• BLEU scoring tool for machine translation evaluation

Parallel Corpora

• LDC Linguistic Data Consortium
• Canadian Hansards
• Europarl
• Global Voices
• Acquis Communitaire
• ELRA

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