Statistical Translation Between Languages       

Artificial Intelligence Accomplishment | 1988

IBM researchers: John Cocke, Frederick Jelinek, Robert L. Mercer

Where the work was done: T.J. Watson Research Center

What we accomplished: Major advance in teaching a machine how to translate one human language into another.

Related links: Wikipedia Article on Statistical Translation, Wikipedia Article on John Cocke, Citations from Wikipedia:

• Peter Brown, John Cocke, Stephen Della Pietra, Vincent Della Pietra, Frederick Jelinek, Robert L. Mercer, Paul Roossin (1988). "A statistical approach to language translation". COLING'88 (Association for Computational Linguistics) 1: 71–76.
• Peter Brown, John Cocke, Stephen Della Pietra, Vincent Della Pietra, Frederick Jelinek, John D. Lafferty, Robert L. Mercer, Paul Roossin (1990). "A statistical approach to machine translation". Computational Linguistics (MIT Press) 16 (2): 79–85.
• Peter Brown, Stephen Della Pietra, Vincent Della Pietra, and Robert L. Mercer (1993). "The mathematics of statistical machine translation: parameter estimation.". Computational Linguistics (MIT Press) 19 (2): 263–311.

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