Book: "Statistical Machine Translation"

Available now at amazon.uk, coming soon to amazon.com.

Milestones:

• Fall 2004: started writing
• Early 2006: contract in place
• November 8th, 2006: core chapters (4-8) done
• October, 2008: final draft to publisher
• 26th October, 2009: book goes to print
• 23rd November, 2009: bound proofs
• 16th-23rd December, 2009: available from publisher

Content:

• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: Words, Sentences, Corpora
• Chapter 3: Probability Theory
• Chapter 4: Word-Based Models
• Chapter 5: Phrase-Based Models
• Chapter 6: Decoding
• Chapter 7: Language Models
• Chapter 8: Evaluation
• Chapter 9: Discriminative Training
• Chapter 10: Integrating Linguistic Information
• Chapter 11: Tree-Based Models