Dear Michael,
Here some references, that might be interesting for you. First of all
the IBM paper:
P.F.Brown, V.J.Della Pietra, S.A.Della Pietra, and R.L.Mercer:
The Mathematics of Statistical Machine Translation:
Parameter Estimation.
Computational Linguistics, Vol. 19, No. 2, pp. 263-311, 1993.
this is the basis of the statistical machine translation in general. Then there
are some papers, that enhance or use the models introduced there to make the
translation itself:
H.Alshawi, F.Xiang:
English-to-Mandarin Speech Translation with Head Transducers.
Proc. of the Spoken Language Translation Workshop, pp. 54-60,
Madrid, Spain, 1997.
S.Niessen, S.Vogel, H.Ney, C.Tillmann:
A DP-Based Search Algorithm for Statistical Machine Translation.
Proc. of the 35th Annual Conf. of the Association for Computational
Linguistics and the 17th Intl. Conf. on Computational Linguistics,
pp. 960-967, Montreal, Canada, 1998.
F.J.Och, H.Weber:
Improving Statistical Natural Language Translation
with Categories and Rules.
Proc. of the 35th Annual Conf. of the Association for Computational
Linguistics and the 17th Intl. Conf. on Computational Linguistics,
pp. 985-989, Montreal, Canada, 1998.
C.Tillmann, S.Vogel, H.Ney, A.Zubiaga:
A DP-based Search Using Monotone Alignments in Statistical
Translation.
Proc. of the 35th Annual Conf. of the Association for Computational
Linguistics, pp.~289-296, Madrid, Spain, 1997.
C.Tillmann, S.Vogel, H.Ney, A.Zubiaga, H.Sawaf:
Accelerated DP Based Search for Statistical Translation.
Fifth European Conf. on Speech Communication and Technology,
pp. 2667-2670, Rhodos, Greece, 1997.
D.Wu:
A Polynomial-Time Algorithm for Statistical Machine Translation.
Proc. of the 34th Annual Conf. of the Association for Computational
Linguistics, pp. 152-158, Santa Cruz, CA, June 1996.
and some more... You can search in the homepages of the different groups, there
are some papers available for download, some are even newer than the above
metioned.
Meanwhile there are also some journal papers available, e.g.:
H.Ney, S.Niessen, F.J.Och, H.Sawaf, C.Tillmann, S.Vogel:
Algorithms for statistical translation of spoken language.
IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, 8(1):24--36, 1/2000.
Hope this helps,
Hassan
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