LINGUIST List 21.3290 Sun Aug 15 2010 Books: Computational Linguistics/Translation: Koehn Editor for this issue: Maria Moreno-Rollins <marialinguistlist.org> Links to the websites of all LINGUIST's supporting publishers are available at the end of this issue. Directory         1.    Daniel Davies, Statistical Machine Translation: Koehn Message 1: Statistical Machine Translation: Koehn Date: 11-Aug-2010 From: Daniel Davies <ddaviescambridge.org> Subject: Statistical Machine Translation: Koehn E-mail this message to a friend Title: Statistical Machine Translation Published: 2010 Publisher: Cambridge University Press                 http://us.cambridge.org Book URL: http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780511687594 Author: Philipp Koehn Electronic: ISBN: 9780511687594 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 48.00 Hardback: ISBN: 9780521874151 Pages: 446 Price: U.K. £ 40.00 Comment: published on December 2009 Abstract: The dream of automatic language translation is now closer thanks to recent advances in the techniques that underpin statistical machine translation. This class-tested textbook from an active researcher in the field, provides a clear and careful introduction to the latest methods and explains how to build machine translation systems for any two languages. It introduces the subject's building blocks from linguistics and probability, then covers the major models for machine translation: word-based, phrase-based, and tree-based, as well as machine translation evaluation, language modeling, discriminative training and advanced methods to integrate linguistic annotation. The book also reports the latest research, presents the major outstanding challenges, and enables novices as well as experienced researchers to make novel contributions to this exciting area. Ideal for students at undergraduate and graduate level, or for anyone interested in the latest developments in machine translation. - The first introductory guide to this burgeoning field - takes readers step by step through theory and methods - Class tested by the author at universities and conference tutorials - Accompanying website provides additional exercises and links to further resources Contents Preface; Part I. Foundations: 1. Introduction; 2. Words, sentences, corpora; 3. Probability theory; Part II. Core Methods: 4. Word-based models; 5. Phrase-based models; 6. Decoding; 7. Language models; 8. Evaluation; Part III. Advanced Topics: 9. Discriminative training; 10. Integrating linguistic information; 11. Tree-based models; Bibliography; Author index; Index. Review 'Philipp Koehn has provided the first comprehensive text for the rapidly growing field of statistical machine translation. This book is an invaluable resource for students, researchers, 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. 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