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  <Title>A Hierarchical Phrase-Based Model for Statistical Machine Translation</Title>
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    <Paragraph position="0"> We present a statistical phrase-based translation model that uses hierarchical phrases-phrases that contain subphrases. The model is formally a synchronous context-free grammar but is learned from a bitext without any syntactic information. Thus it can be seen as a shift to the formal machinery of syntax-based translation systems without any linguistic commitment. In our experiments using BLEU as a metric, the hierarchical phrase-based model achieves a relative improvement of 7.5% over Pharaoh, a state-of-the-art phrase-based system.</Paragraph>
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