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HLT '10 Human Language Technologies: The 2010 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
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WMT '10 Proceedings of the Joint Fifth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation and MetricsMATR
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In this paper we propose several novel approaches to improve phrase reordering for statistical machine translation in the framework of maximum-entropy-based modeling. A smoothed prior probability is introduced to take into account the distortion effect in the priors. In addition to that we propose multiple novel distortion features based on syntactic parsing. A new metric is also introduced to measure the effect of distortion in the translation hypotheses. We show that both smoothed priors and syntax-based features help to significantly improve the reordering and hence the translation performance on a large-scale Chinese-to-English machine translation task.