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<Paper uid="W03-0309">
  <Title>The Duluth Word Alignment System</Title>
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Abstract
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    <Paragraph position="0"> The Duluth Word Alignment System participated in the 2003 HLT-NAACL Workshop on Parallel Text shared task on word alignment for both English-French and Romanian-English.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> It is a Perl implementation of IBM Model 2.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> We used approximately 50,000 aligned sentences as training data for each language pair, and found the results for Romanian-English to be somewhat better. We also varied the Model 2 distortion parameters among the values 2, 4, and 6, but did not observe any significant differences in performance as a result.</Paragraph>
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