2008 StatisticalMachineTranslation

(Koehn, 2008) ⇒ Philipp Koehn. (2008). “Statistical Machine Translation.” Cambridge University Press. ISBN:0521874157

Subject Headings: Statistical Machine Translation, Textbook.

Notes

The task of translation is to take words and sentences in one language and produce words and sentences with the same meaning in another language. Unfortunately, meaning is a very difficult concept to deal with.
The definition of word senses, like everything else in semantics, is difficult business. How many senses does the word interest have? … Fortunately, translation provides a clear basis for defining relevant word senses. A word has multiple senses, if it has multiple translations into another language. For instance, the three meanings of interest we listed above result in different translations into German: Interesse (curiosity sense), Anteil (stake sense) and Zins (money sense). … The task of determining the right word sense for a word in a given context is called word sense disambiguation. Research in this area has shown that the word context such as closely neighboring words and content words in a larger window are good indicators for word sense.

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	Author	volume	Date Value	title	type	journal	titleUrl	doi	note	year
2008 StatisticalMachineTranslation	Philipp Koehn			Statistical Machine Translation			http://www.statmt.org/book/book.pdf			2008