@inproceedings{knight-al-onaizan-1998-translation,
    title = "Translation with finite-state devices",
    author = "Knight, Kevin  and
      Al-Onaizan, Yaser",
    editor = "Farwell, David  and
      Gerber, Laurie  and
      Hovy, Eduard",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Third Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas: Technical Papers",
    month = oct # " 28-31",
    year = "1998",
    address = "Langhorne, PA, USA",
    publisher = "Springer",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/jlcl-multiple-ingestion/1998.amta-papers.37/",
    pages = "421--437",
    abstract = "Statistical models have recently been applied to machine translation with interesting results. Algorithms for processing these models have not received wide circulation, however. By contrast, general finite-state transduction algorithms have been applied in a variety of tasks. This paper gives a finite-state reconstruction of statistical translation and demonstrates the use of standard tools to compute statistically likely translations. Ours is the first translation algorithm for {\textquotedblleft}fertility/permutation{\textquotedblright} statistical models to be described in replicable detail."
}