Toward Using Morphology in French-English Phrase-Based SMT
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چکیده
We describe the system used in our submission to the WMT-2009 French-English translation task. We use the Moses phrasebased Statistical Machine Translation system with two simple modications of the decoding input and word-alignment strategy based on morphology, and analyze their impact on translation quality.
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