Daniel Jurafsky og James H. Martin: Speech and Language Processing: An Introduction to Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics and Speech Recognition, 2008. Prentice Hall. ISBN: (978)-0-13-187321-6 . 2. ed, selection, in particular from Ch. 6-10, 24 & 25.. [ detailed list of sections for the SDS part ].
Michael Tomasello, Malinda Carpenter, Josep Call, Tanya Behne, and Henrike Moll: "Understanding and sharing intentions: The origins of cultural cognition" in Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2005. Cambridge University Press. 28, 675–735. This article provides some interesting background information on some core ideas from cognitive psychology which are important to understand how dialogue actually works, and why dialogue is fundamentally a shared, collaborative activity. http://email.eva.mpg.de/~tomas/pdf/BBS_Final.pdf.
Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig: Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, 2010 (3rd edition). Prentice Hall. This book is an optional reading, but is very useful to get a better grasp on probabilistic modelling and reasoning under uncertainty. Of special interest are chapters 13-17 and 20-21.
Steve Young: "The statistical approach to the design of spoken dialogue systems" in Technical Report CUED/F-INFENG/TR.433, Cambridge University Engineering Department, 2002. http://mi.eng.cam.ac.uk/reports/svr-ftp/auto-pdf/young_tr433.pdf.
Philipp Koehn: Statistical Machine Translation, 2010. Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 978-0-521-87415-1. Details.
Stephan Oepen et. al.: "Towards hybrid quality-oriented machine translation. On linguistics and probabilities in MT" in Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation, 2007. Can be found here.
Recommended supplementary reading (obligatory for INF 9820)
Kishore Papineni et. al.: "Bleu: a Method for Automatic Evaluation of Machine Translation" in Fulltext.
Chris Callison-Burch, Miles Osborne and Philipp Koehn: "Re-evaluation the Role of Bleu in Machine Translation Research" in 11 th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL, 2006. Fulltext.
Recommended background reading
Philipp Koehn: Statistical Machine Translation, 2010. Cambridge University Press. Ch.2 & 3. See details.