Statistical Machine Translation 1st Edition

by Philipp Koehn (Author)

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This introductory text to statistical machine translation (SMT) provides all of the theories and methods needed to build a statistical machine translator, such as Google Language Tools and Babelfish. In general, statistical techniques allow automatic translation systems to be built quickly for any language-pair using only translated texts and generic software. With increasing globalization, statistical machine translation will be central to communication and commerce. Based on courses and tutorials, and classroom-tested globally, it is ideal for instruction or self-study, for advanced undergraduates and graduate students in computer science and/or computational linguistics, and researchers in natural language processing. The companion website provides open-source corpora and tool-kits.

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"Philipp Koehn has provided the first comprehensive text for this rapidly growing field of statistical machine translation. This book is an invaluable resource for students, researcher, and software developers, providing a lucid and detailed presentation of all the important ideas needed to understand or create a state-of-the-art statistical machine translation system."
Robert C. Moore, Microsoft Research

"This is an excellent introduction for someone interested in statistical translation. It is quite readable..."
Jeffrey Putnam, Computing Reviews

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This class-tested text establishes background in NLP and statistics, then develops the basics through to current research. By the end readers can build their own translation systems. For advanced undergraduates in computer science, graduate students in computer science and computational linguistics, and researchers in NLP; for instruction or self-study.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Cambridge Univ Pr; 1st edition (January 18, 2010)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 433 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0521874157
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0521874151
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.25 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 1 x 9.7 inches

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Sunghyun Kim

Must-Have Item for MT System Developer

Reviewed in the United States on September 29, 2010

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I currently work at NLP software company in South Korea as an NLU software developer.
When I bought this book, I was finishing my own MT decoder and starting to
build a rudimentary IBM word alignment model trainer.

This book greatly contributed to the project in that it deeply corrected my wrong understanding of
many concepts such as dynamic programming, optimization, beam search, and etc.

Best part : It includes easy-to-understand pseudo-code for IBM 1~5 word alignment process.

It was also helpful in improving the performance of existing decoder.

As one of the leading figures in well-known Moses project and Euro Matrix,
author's explanation is firmly grounded upon practical experience and
includes a lot of elements required for building a prototype MT system.

I believe reading this book with the background knowledge
that you can learn in such books as Artificial Intelligence
: A Modern Approach or Mitchell's Machine Learning,
may maximize your learning rate, since the subject stuffs in
these books are highly inter-related with each others,
for example, unsupervised learning algorithm(especially EM),
optimization and search.

This book is top-ranked in NLP category of my personal book shelf.
I guess you won't regret if you purchase one.

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Jay Yamada

Gold Standard in SMT

Reviewed in the United States on January 27, 2010

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Philipp Koehn is a superb lecturer and teacher in the area of statistical machine translation (SMT). I have being living off his lecture notes from the ACL, LSA summer session and Edinburgh for years and eagerly waiting for this book to tie everything together.

Koehn has the ability to take complex statistical concepts and make them comprehensible. And he has an encyclopedic knowledge of the state-of-the-art in SMT. His bibliography alone is worth the price of this book.

This book will be the gold standard in SMT for years to come. I would highly recommend to students and professionals in the field.

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Tommi Pirinen

Must-have for all scientists working on SMT

Reviewed in the United States on November 19, 2014

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It is more or less obligatory reading for anyone working on the topic. Goes through most important methods and approaches to implementing the system and the algorithms are described well enough that one can re-implement them easily. There are some errors that can be problematic if you forget to check the errata. Sometimes the notations of formulas are a bit hard to follow. All in all rather well written school-book for contemporary statistical machine translation.

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richard scott

enjoyed the kindle edition

Reviewed in the United States on August 18, 2013

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well written and entertaining text book. would have liked more on hierarchical parsing models. the kindle edition was great except that the diagrams could not be zoomed

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Anatoly CHEONG

Now I know what is SMT

Reviewed in the United States on October 28, 2013

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Excellent Book in English wIth brain neutral explanation. Not too much alien symbols. Great thanx to the author. Really good book.!

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Eric Poirier

Very technical but very rigorous

Reviewed in Canada on November 9, 2013

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As a translator and linguist, I found this book very complete. Even if some of the developments in the book are highly technical and statistically oriented (as expected), the author describes clearly what the statistics are used for. The author also explains in details the scientific advances that were made to make operational the statistical automatic translation systems used nowadays.
It should be noted that the translation process or operation described in this book is based on "likely" textual segment associations compiled in bilingual corpora (of translated texts generally made by human translators). This statistical operation has nothing in common with a genuine translation process based on meaning.
Eric Poirier

Diego Moussallem

Awesome book

Reviewed in Germany on August 25, 2017

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If you are a PhD student who researches in the machine translation field you must buy this book. It gives you the enough background for understanding MT systems.

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Himanshu Maurya

The books if you are serious about statistical machine translation

Reviewed in India on September 1, 2018

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Amazing read !!

Tiago Torrent

Great course book

Reviewed in Brazil on October 25, 2014

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That's a great course book. I've been using it with a group of undergrads and we find the text clear and the approach comprehensive.

Carlos Ramisch

A textbook for SMT researchers

Reviewed in France on April 9, 2010

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A nice and quite complete introduction to the field of statistical machine translation by one of the most successful researchers in the field. It provides the basic foundations, both in linguistics and in statistics, for those who never heard about SMT but it also provides pointers on advanced topics like syntax-based models for those who are already familiar with SMT. Most of the chapters have plenty of examples that aid in understanding and plenty of references that provide endless material for further reading.

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