• Word Selection
  
• Jesús Giménez and Lluís Márquez. Discriminative Phrase Selection for Statistical Machine Translation .  In Learning Machine Translation. NIPS Workshop Series. MIT Press.
  
• Lucia Specia, Baskaran Sankaran and Maria das Graças Volpe Nunes. n-Best Reranking for the Efficient Integration of Word Sense Disambiguation and Statistical Machine Translation .  Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing (CICLing'08).
  
• Nicolas Stroppa, Antal van den Bosch and Andy Way. Exploiting Source Similarity for SMT using Context-Informed Features .  (TMI'07).
  
• Philipp Koehn and Hieu Hoang. Factored Translation Models .  (EMNLP'07).
  
• Marine Carpuat and Dekai Wu. Improving Statistical Machine Translation Using Word Sense Disambiguation .  (EMNLP'07).
  (see also "How Phrase Sense Disambiguation outperforms Word Sense Disambiguation for Statistical Machine Translation" at TMI 2007; "Context-Dependent Phrasal Translation Lexicons for Statistical Machine Translation" at MT Summit XI, 2007; and "Evaluation of Context-Dependent Phrasal Translation Lexicons for Statistical Machine Translation" at LREC 2008).
• Yee Seng Chan, Hwee Tou Ng and David Chiang. Word Sense Disambiguation Improves Statistical Machine Translation .  (ACL'07).
  
• Srinivas Bangalore, Patrick Haffner and Stephan Kanthak. Statistical Machine Translation through Global Lexical Selection and Sentence Reconstruction .  (ACL'07).
  
• Lucia Specia, Mark Stevenson and Maria das Graças Volpe Nunes. Learning Expressive Models for Word Sense Disambiguation .  (ACL'07).
  
• Jesús Giménez and Lluís Márquez. Context-aware Discriminative Phrase Selection for Statistical Machine Translation .  (WMT'07).
  
• Marine Carpuat and Dekai Wu. Evaluating the Word Sense Disambiguation Performance of Statistical Machine Translation.  (IJCNLP-2005).
  
• D. Vickrey, L. Biewald, M. Teyssier, and D. Koller. Word-Sense Disambiguation for Machine Translation. (HLT/EMNLP'05).
• Jesús Giménez, Lluís Márquez and German Rigau. Automatic Translation of WordNet Glosses. (EUROLAN'05 CLKI)
• Marine Carpuat and Dekai Wu. Word Sense Disambiguation vs. Statistical Machine Translation. (ACL'05).
• Jesús Giménez and Lluís Màrquez. Combining Linguistic Data Views for Phrase-based SMT. (ACL'05 Workshop on Building and Using Parallel Texts).
• Rafael E. Banchs, Josep M. Crego, Adrià de Gispert, Patrik Lambert and José B. Mariño. Statistical Machine Translation of Euparl Data by using Bilingual N-grams. (ACL'05 Workshop on Building and Using Parallel Texts).
• Charles Schafer and David Yarowsky. Statistical Machine Translation Using Coercive Two-Level Syntactic Transduction. (EMNLP'03).
• Franz Josef Och and Hermann Ney. A Discriminative Training and Maximum Entropy Models for Statistical Machine Translation. (ACL'02).
• Daniel Marcu and William Wong. A Phrase-Based, Joint Probability Model for Statistical Machine Translation. (EMNLP'02).
• Peter F. Brown and Stephen A. Della Pietra and Vincent J. Della Pietra and Robert L. Mercer. A statistical approach to sense disambiguation in machine translation. (HLT'91: Proceedings of the workshop on Speech and Natural Language).

• Reranking
  
• Libin Shen, Anoop Sarkar and Franz Och. Discriminative Reranking for Machine Translation. (HLT/NAACL'04).
• Franz Josef Och, Daniel Gildea, Sanjeev Khudanpur, Anoop Sarkar, Kenji Yamada, Alex Fraser, Shankar Kumar, Libin Shen, David Smith, Katherine Eng, Viren Jain, Zhen Jin, and Dragomir Radev. A Smorgasbord of Features for Statistical Machine Translation. (NAACL'04).
• Franz Josef Och, Daniel Gildea, Sanjeev Khudanpur, Anoop Sarkar, Kenji Yamada, Alex Fraser, Shankar Kumar, Libin Shen, David Smith, Katherine Eng, Viren Jain, Zhen Jin, Dragomir Radev. Final Report of Johns Hopkins 2003 Summer Workshop on Syntax for Statistical Machine Translation. (JHU'03).

• Language Modeling
• Katrin Kirchhoff and Mei Yang. Improved Language Modeling for Statistical Machine Translation. (ACL'05 Workshop on Building and Using Parallel Texts).
• Eugene Charniak, Kevin Knight and Kenji Yamada. Syntax-based Language Models for Machine Translation. (SUMMIT-IX'03).
• Andreas Stolcke. SRILM - An Extensible Language Modeling Toolkit. (ICSLP'02)

• System Development
• Patrik Lambert, Jesús Giménez, Marta R. Costa-jussá, Enrique Amigó, Rafael E. Banchs, Lluís Márquez and J.A. R. Fonollosa. Machine Translation System Development based on Human Likeness. (IEEE/ACL'06 WSLT)
• Franz Josef Och. Minimum Error Rate Training in Statistical Machine Translation. (ACL'03).
  

• MT evaluation
• Chris Callison-Burch Fast, Cheap, and Creative: Evaluating Translation Quality Using Amazon's Mechanical Turk . (EMNLP'09).
• Jesús Giménez and Lluís Márquez. Heterogeneous Automatic MT Evaluation Through Non-Parametric Metric Combinations . (IJCNLP'08).
• Michael Paul, Andrew Finch and Eiichiro Sumita. Reducing Human Assessments of Machine Translation Quality to Binary Classifiers. (TMI'07).
• Joshua Albrecht and Rebecca Hwa. A Re-examination of Machine Learning Approaches for Sentence-Level MT Evaluation . (ACL'07).
• Joshua Albrecht and Rebecca Hwa. Regression for Sentence-Level MT Evaluation with Pseudo References . (ACL'07).
• Jesús Giménez and Lluís Márquez. Linguistic Features for Automatic Evaluation of Heterogenous MT Systems . (WMT'07).
• Yang Ye, Ming Zhou and Chin-Yew Lin Sentence Level Machine Translation Evaluation as a Ranking Problem: one step aside from BLEU . (WMT'07).
• Ding Liu and Daniel Gildea. Source-Language Features and Maximum Correlation Training for Machine Translation Evaluation. (NAACL'07).
• Matthew Snover, Bonnie Dorr, Richard Schwartz, Linnea Micciulla and John Makhoul. A Study of Translation Edit Rate with Targeted Human Annotation. (AMTA'06)
  
• Enrique Amigó, Jesús Giménez, Julio Gonzalo and Lluís Márquez. MT Evaluation: Human-like vs. Human Acceptable. (ACL'06).
• Ding Liu and Daniel Gildea. Stochastic Iterative Alignment for Machine Translation Evaluation. (ACL'06).
• Chris Callison-Burch and Miles Osborne and Philipp Koehn. Re-evaluating the Role of BLEU in Machine Translation Research. (EACL'06)
  
• Enrique Amigó, Julio Gonzalo, Anselmo Peñas, Felisa Verdejo. QARLA: A Framework for the Evaluation of Text Summarization Systems. (ACL'05).
• Ding Liu and Daniel Gildea. Syntactic Features for Evaluation of Machine Translation. (ACL'05 Workshop on Intrinsic and Extrinsic Evaluation Measures for Machine Translation and/or Summarization).
• Satanjeev Banerjee, Alon Lavie. METEOR: An Automatic Metric for MT Evaluation with Improved Correlation with Human Judgments. (ACL'05 Workshop on Intrinsic and Extrinsic Evaluation Measures for Machine Translation and/or Summarization).
• Michael Gamon, Anthony Ave and Martine Smets. Sentence-level MT evaluation without reference translations: Beyond language modeling. (EAMT'05).
• Alex Kulesza and Stuart M. Shieber. A learning approach to improving sentence-level MT evaluation. (10th International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation, 2004).
• Alon Lavie, Kenji Sagae, and Shyamsundar Jayaraman. The Significance of Recall in Automatic Metrics for MT Evaluation. (AMTA'04).
• Philipp Koehn. Statistical Significance Tests for Machine Translation Evaluation. (EMNLP'04).
  
• Chin-Yew Lin and Franz Josef Och. ORANGE: a  Method for Evaluating Automatic Evaluation Metrics for Machine Translation. (COLING'04).
  
• Chin-Yew Lin and Franz Josef Och. Automatic Evaluation of Machine Translation Quality Using Longest Common Subsequence and Skip-Bigram Statistics. (ACL'04).
• Bogdan Babych and Tony Hartley. Extending the BLEU MT Evaluation Method with Frequency Weightings. (ACL'04).
  
• Chris Quirk. Training a Sentence-Level Machine Translation Confidence Metric. (LREC'04).
  
• Joseph P. Turian, Luke Shen, and I. Dan Melamed. Evaluation of Machine Translation and its Evaluation. (MT SUMMIT IX, 2003).
• Christopher Culy and Susanne Z. Riehemann. The Limits of N-gram Translation Evaluation Metrics. (MT-SUMMIT-IX, 2003).
• Deborah Coughlin. Correlating Automated and Human Assessments of Machine Translation Quality. (MT-SUMMIT-IX, 2003).
• I. Dan Melamed, Ryan Green, and Joseph P. Turian. Precision and Recall of Machine Translation. (HLT/NAACL'03).
• Chin-Yew Lin and E.H. Hovy. Automatic Evaluation of Machine Translation Quality Using N-gram Co-Occurrence Statistics. NIST, 2002.
  
• Kishore Papineni, Salim Roukos, Todd Ward, and Wei-Jing Zhu. Bleu: a method for automatic evaluation of machine translation. IBM Research Report, RC22176, September 2001.
• Yasuhiro Akiba, Kenji Imamura and Eiichiro Sumita. Using Multiple Edit Distances to Automatically Rank Machine Translation Output. (MT Summit VIII, 2001).
• Simon Corston-Oliver, Michael Gamon and Chris Brockett. A Machine Learning Approach to the Automatic Evaluation of Machine Translation. (ACL'01).

• Confidence Estimation
• George Foster, Simona Gandrabur, Cyril Goutte, Erin Fitzgerald, Alberto Sanchis, Nicola Uefng, John Blatz and Alex Kulesza. Confidence Estimation for Machine Translation. Final Report of Johns Hopkins 2003 Summer Workshop on Speech and Language Engineering (JHU'03). Short version presented at CoLing 2004.

• Decoding
• Liang Huang, Hao Zhang and Dan Gildea. Machine Translation as Lexicalized Parsing with Hooks. (IWPT'05)
• Philipp Koehn. Pharaoh: a Beam Search Decoder for Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation Models. (AMTA'04).
• Ulrich Germann. Greedy Decoding for Machine Translation in Almost Linear Time. (HLT/NAACL'03).
• Kenji Yamada and Kevin Knight. A Decoder for Syntax-based Statistical MT. (ACL'02).
• Ulrich Germann and Michael Jahr and Kevin Knight and Daniel Marcu and Kenji Yamada. Fast decoding and optimal decoding for machine translation. (ACL'01)

• Hybrid Approaches
• Declan Groves and Andy Way. 2005. Hybrid Example-Based SMT: the Best of Both Worlds?. (ACL'05 Workshop on Building and Using Parallel Texts).
• Loïc Dugast, Jean Senellart and Philipp Koehn. Statistical Post-Editing on SYSTRAN's Rule-Based Translation System. (WMT'07).
• Michel Simard, Nicola Ueffing, Pierre Isabelle and Roland Kuhn.Rule-Based Translation with Statistical Phrase-Based Post-Editing . (WMT'07).

• Phd Theses
• Jesús Giménez. Empirical Machine Translation and its Evaluation, PhD thesis, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2008.
• Philipp Koehn. Noun Phrase Translation, PhD thesis, University of Southern California, 2003.
• Kenji Yamada. A Syntax-based Translation Model, Ph.D. Thesis, University of Southern California, 2002.
• Franz Josef Och. Statistical Machine Translation: From Single-Word Models to Alignment Templates,  PhD thesis, RWTH Aachen, Germany, 2002.

• Introductory Material
• Dorr, Bonnie J. Machine Translation Divergences: A Formal Description and Proposed Solution (.pdf). In Computational Linguistics, 20:4, pp. 597-633, 1994.
• Kevin Knight. A Statistical MT Tutorial Workbook. (unpublished, August 1999)
• D.J. Arnold, Lorna Balkan, Siety Meijer, R.Lee Humphreys and Louisa Sadler. Machine Translation: an Introductory Guide, Blackwells-NCC, London, 1994, ISBN: 1855542-17x.
• Kenneth W. Church and Eduard H. Hovy. Good Applications for Crummy Machine Translation. In Machine Translation, 8:4, pp. 239-258, 1993.

• History of MT
  
• John Hutchins (website)
  

Past Events

• MT Summit XI 2007
• IWSLT 2007
• Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation (TMI'07)
• MT SUMMIT XI
• EMNLP 2007
• ACL 2007
  • Second Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation
• NAACL 2007
  • Syntax and Structure in Statistical Translation (SSST)
• ACE 2007 - Entity Translation
• New Approaches to Machine Translation (A METIS-II Workshop)
• Open Source Toolkit for Statistical Machine Translation (JHU'06)
• NIST 2006 MT Evaluation Campaign
• IWSLT 2006
  
• EAMT 11^th Annual Conference
• ACL 2006
• NAACL 2006
  • Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation
• LREC 2006
  
• OPENLAB 2006: TC-STAR OpenLab on Speech Translation
• EACL 2006
• NIST 2005 MT Evaluation Campaign
• IWSLT 2005
• RANLP 2005 - Workshop on Modern Approaches in Translation Technologies
• MT SUMMIT X
• ACL 2005
  • Workshop on Intrinsic and Extrinsic Evaluation Measures for MT and/or Summarization
  • Workshop on Building and Using Parallel Texts: Data-driven Machine Translation and Beyond
• Statistical Machine Translation by Parsing (JHU'05)
• Syntax for SMT 2003 Workshop (JHU'03)
• Generation in the Context of MT (JHU'02)
• Statistical Machine Translation (JHU'99)

Lists

EAMT MT-list

Data

European Parliament Parallel Corpus [Europarl]
Canadian Parliament Parallel Corpus [Handsards]
OPUS - an open source parallel corpus

Tools

Conference Proceedings

MT Summit X 2005
HLT-NAACL 2004
HLT-NAACL 2003
MT Summit IX 2003
ACL Anthology

Language Weaver
Translendium
Star-Spain
Google  [MT demo]
Systran

(last updated July 28, 2010)