《国外计算机科学教材系列:统计机器翻译》提供了必要的语言学和概率论基础知识，涵盖了机器翻译的主要模型：基于词的、基于短语的和基于句法树的模型，还介绍了机器翻译评测、语言建模、区分式训练以及整合语言学标注的高级方法。《国外计算机科学教材系列:统计机器翻译》汇总了最新的研究成果和一些尚未解决的挑战，使初学者和经验丰富的研究人员都能够对这一领域有所贡献。这是一本本科生和研究生的理想读本，也适用于任何对机器翻译开发有兴趣的读者。

This is the 2nd edition of "Speech and Language Processing, 2000" (http://www.douban.com/subject/1810715/). An explosion of Web-based language techniques, merging of distinct fields, availability of phone-based dialogue systems, and much more make this an exciting time in speech and language processing. The first of its kind to thoroughly cover language technology – at all levels and with all modern technologies – this book takes an empirical approach to the subject, based on applying statistical and other machine-learning algorithms to large corporations. Builds each chapter around one or more worked examples demonstrating the main idea of the chapter, usingthe examples to illustrate the relative strengths and weaknesses of various approaches. Adds coverage of statistical sequence labeling, information extraction, question answering and summarization, advanced topics in speech recognition, speech synthesis. Revises coverage of language modeling, formal grammars, statistical parsing, machine translation, and dialog processing. A useful reference for professionals in any of the areas of speech and language processing.