Philipp Koehn: STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION

摘要

'Something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue', the wedding tradition saying can be quoted here to describe the main features of Statistical Machine Translation written by Philipp Koehn. As a new discipline, machine translation (MT) has only developed for 60 years, a history much shorter than that of linguistics and mathematics. Especially, statistical machine translation (SMT), a branch of MT, has only become popularized since the 1980s. However, the 'old' ingredients of linguistic and mathematical knowledge are necessary and a must in this new field. The foundation part of this book (the first three chapters) introduces the basic knowledge. Chapter 1 gives an overview of the book by providing a summary of each chapter and the layout of the book.