These articles cover various areas of statistical models that have been developed to better understand linguistic processes.
Head-Driven Statistical Models for Natural Language Parsing. Collins (2003)
Wide-coverage efficient statistical parsing with CCG and log-linear models. Clark and Curran (2007)
Experiments in Domain Adaptation for Statistical Machine Translation. Koehn and Schroeder (2007)
Statistical Language Models for Information Retrieval: A Critical Review. Zhai (2008)
Probabilistic models of language processing and acquisition. Chater and Manning (2006)
Corpus linguistics and naive discriminative learning. Baayen (2011)