Word alignments are used primarily for extracting minimal translation units for machine translation ( MT ) ( e.g. , phrases [ Koehn , Och , and Marcu 2003 ] and rules [ Galley et al. 2004 ; Chiang et al. 2005 ] ) as well as for
the hiero machine translation system extensions evaluation and analysis
David Chiang Adam Lopez Nitin Madnani Christof Monz Philip Resnik Michael Subotin
Although no longer competitive as end-to-end translation models , the IBM Models , as well as the hidden Markov model ( HMM ) of Vogel , Ney , and Tillmann ( 1996 ) , are still widely used for word alignment . Word alignments are used primarily for extracting minimal translation units for machine translation ( MT ) ( e.g. , phrases [ Koehn , Och , and Marcu 2003 ] and rules [ Galley et al. 2004 ; Chiang et al. 2005 ] ) as well as for MT system combination ( Matusov , Ueffing , and Ney 2006 ) .
Word alignments are used primarily for extracting minimal translation units for machine translation ( MT ) ( e.g. , phrases [ Koehn , Och , and Marcu 2003 ] and rules [ Galley et al. 2004 ; @@CITATION ] ) as well as for