Papers and software for statistical machine translation, mostly for historical refererence. See also Wikipedia - Statistical Machine Translation.

• Lopez 2008 - Statistical Machine Translation or Lopez 2007 - A Survey of Statistical Machine Translation (nicer formatting)

• IBM Models
  • Brown et al 1988 - A Statistical Approach to Language Translation Overview paper of the approach
  • Brown et al 1993 - The Mathematics of Statistical Machine Translation: Parameter Estimation Mathematical details of IBM alignment models 1-5
  • IBM's complete system: pdf patent
• Vogel et al 1996 - HMM-Based Word Alignment in Statistical Translation
• ReWrite decoder: Germann et al 2001 - Fast Decoding and Optimal Decoding for Machine Translation
• Kumar & Byrne 2003 - A Weighted Finite State Transducer Implementation of the Alignment Template Model for Statistical Machine Translation
• Concavity of IBM model 1: Gimpel & Smith 2012
• Dyer et al 2013 - A Simple, Fast, and Effective Reparameterization of IBM Model 2

• Och et al 2003 - Statistical Phrase-Based Translation
• Och & Ney 2003 - A Systematic Comparison of Various Statistical Alignment Models
• Khoen 2004 - Pharaoh: a beam search decoder for phrase-based statistical machine translation models

• Och 2003 - Minimum Error Rate Training in Statistical Machine Translation

• Metrics
  • BLEU
  • Banerjee & Lavie 2005 - METEOR: An Automatic Metric for MT Evaluation with Improved Correlation with Human Judgments
• Methodology
  • Koehn 2004 - Statistical Significance Tests for Machine Translation Evaluation

• GIZA++ Open source reimplementation of IBM alignment models
• ReWrite Decoder Open source implementation of word-based SMT
• Moses
• cdec

• Noisy Channel Model
• Machine Translation