Talk:Statistical machine translation

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The ref. for Weaver is all screwed-up. Is it 1949 or 1955? I don't have access to the reference.

Also it's a bit misleading to attribute SMT to Weaver and say Brown et al. "re-introduced it". As far as anybody knows, Weaver never actually developped any SMT system. The statistical models that Brown et al. introduced (and their combination with a language model) was never introduced before afaik. Also, there is a short paper in CL in 1990, vol. 16, and their longer, reference paper appeared in CL in 1993, vol. 19. However this work was developped and presented at the end of the 80s. Sunny house (talk) 19:42, 11 March 2008 (UTC)