Machine translation in the year 2004

Machine translation (MT) accuracy has recently increased, due to better techniques and to the availability of larger parallel training sets. Statistical MT systems are now able to translate across a wide variety of language pairs. This paper covers the basic elements of state-of-the-art, statistical MT, including modeling, decoding, evaluation, and data preparation.

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