Statistical Machine Learning has many points of contact with Statistical Machine Translation. This workshop presents recent work within this intersection. It is sponsored both by the Pascal Network of Excellence and the EU-funded SMART project. This is a 3 years project aimed at addressing a range of problems in Machine Translation and Cross-Language Information Retrieval using modern Statistical Learning methods. One aim of this workshop is to disseminate scientific results and shared experiences from the SMART project to the larger technical and scientific community. More importantly, it is an opportunity to strenghten the connections between the Machine Translation and Machine Learning communities.