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This work is concerned with the space of alignments searched by word alignment systems. We focus on situations where word re-ordering is limited by syntax. We present two new alignment …...

Word alignment plays a central role in statisti- cal MT (SMT) since almost all SMT systems extract translation rules from word aligned parallel training data. While most SMT systems use …...

We describe a new technique for improv- ing statistical machine translation training by adopting scores from a recent crosslin- gual semantic frame based evaluation met- ric, XMEANT, as outside probabilities …...