AWhat changed
Machine translation became a concrete corpus-estimated probabilistic decoding problem.
Scientific scope
Exact eight-author 1990 paper; later IBM models, phrase-based SMT and neural MT separate.
Evidence
The linked sources identify this contribution and its scope. WRS has not independently reconstructed the scientific claims. The record is the 1990 eight-author paper. Later IBM models, alignment algorithms, phrase-based systems and neural machine translation are separate contributions.
Contributors
- Peter F. Brown · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
- John Cocke · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
- Stephen A. Della Pietra · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
- Vincent J. Della Pietra · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
- Fredrick Jelinek · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
- John D. Lafferty · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
- Robert L. Mercer · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
- Paul S. Roossin · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
- Brown et al., A Statistical Approach to Machine Translation
- Brown et al., A Statistical Approach to Machine Translation (paper)
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