Talk:Statistical machine translation

The ref. for Weaver is all screwed-up. Is it 1949 or 1955? I don't have access to the reference.

Also it's a bit misleading to attribute SMT to Weaver and say Brown et al. "re-introduced it". As far as anybody knows, Weaver never actually developped any SMT system. The statistical models that Brown et al. introduced (and their combination with a language model) was never introduced before afaik. Also, there is a short paper in CL in 1990, vol. 16, and their longer, reference paper appeared in CL in 1993, vol. 19. However this work was developped and presented at the end of the 80s. Sunny house (talk) 19:42, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

'Intuitive' to apply Bayes' theorem?
"As a representation of the process by which a human being translates a passage from French to English, this equation is fanciful at best. One can hardly imagine someone rifling mentally through the list of all English passages computing the product of the a priori probability of the passage, Pr(e), and the conditional probability of the French passage given the English passage, Pr(f|e). Instead, there is an overwhelming intuitive appeal to the idea that a translator proceeds by first understanding the French, and then expressing in English the meaning that he has thus grasped. Many people have been guided by this intuitive picture when building machine translation systems." http://acl.ldc.upenn.edu/J/J93/J93-2003.pdf BeauPhenomene (talk) 07:20, 24 April 2014 (UTC)

"Data dilution"
I hereby claim that 173.13.56.41 is a PR guy for safaba and that his contributions regarding "Data dilution" are advertising or a way to make a "key issue" that safaba conveniently solves seem "well known".

The link http://www.machinetranslation.net/ or "a quick guide to machine translation" links to a site that very shortly explains that machine translation is somthing that corporations can use and that data dilution is a common issue. Luckily, safabar has a solution for this. As the site is held by safaba, and offers no objective or additional information, I call for the link to be removed.

The term "data dilution" seems to me as nothing more as "training on data from another/too general topic" which obiously leads to phrases-> translations from another topic. I have never encountered the term in a scientific environment and supect it to be coined by safaba (The first page of google results for "data dilution"+ machine+translation all lead to safaba or this wikipedia page). It seems highly missplaced among the other general problems. So it should be either generalized to "acquiring an adequate training corpus is hard" or stripped off any commercial links and terms. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:8071:2785:5200:28D4:27A2:EC64:ABAB (talk) 16:36, 20 June 2014 (UTC)

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As the translation systems are not able to store all native strings and their translations....
Thanks for your efforts in creating this concise review of a complex and controversial topic. I suggest that some informed editor add a reference and/or explanation for the phrase I've quoted in the subject line?

Also, this article is, IMO, too "primary source" there is a general lack of references. But especially in this fragment (subject line) and the following paragraph. For instance, the following phrase "but even this is not enough." First off, that could use some additional explanation - for instance enough of what? Enough to do an acceptable translation? To reduce storage? What? And then who says? This and many other parts of the article need references to primary sources.

Ronewolf (talk) 19:38, 4 March 2017 (UTC)