Abstract：This paper improves the HMM based word alignment by introducing syntactic knowledge. HMM is combined with English phrase structure tree distance to align Chinese-English words. Experiments shows that the improved HMM can reduce the error rate of word alignment, and improve the BLEU score of statistical machine translation.
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