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  <Title>Phrase-Based Backoff Models for Machine Translation of Highly Inflected Languages</Title>
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Acknowledgments
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    <Paragraph position="0"> This work was funded by NSF grant no. IIS0308297. We thank Ilona Pitk&amp;quot;anen for help with</Paragraph>
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Example A: (German-English):
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      <Paragraph position="0"> SRC:wir sind berzeugt davon, dass ein europa des friedens nicht durch milit&amp;quot;arb&amp;quot;undnisse geschaffen wird.</Paragraph>
      <Paragraph position="1"> BASE: we are convinced that a europe of peace, not by milit&amp;quot;arb&amp;quot;undnisseis created.</Paragraph>
      <Paragraph position="2"> BACKOFF: we are convinced that a europe of peace, not by military alliance is created.</Paragraph>
      <Paragraph position="3"> REF: we are convinced that a europe of peace will not be created through military alliances.</Paragraph>
      <Paragraph position="4"> Example B. (Finnish-English): SRC: arvoisa puhemies, puhuimme t&amp;quot;a&amp;quot;all&amp;quot;a eilisiltana serviasta ja siell&amp;quot;a tapahtuvista vallankumouksellisista muutoksista.</Paragraph>
      <Paragraph position="5"> BASE: mr president, we talked about here last night, on the subject of serbia and there, of vallankumouksellisista changes.</Paragraph>
      <Paragraph position="6"> BACKOFF: mr president, we talked about here last night, on the subject of serbia and there, of revolutionary changes.</Paragraph>
      <Paragraph position="7"> REF: mr. president, last night we discussed the topic of serbia and the revolutionary changes that are taking place there.</Paragraph>
      <Paragraph position="8"> Example C. (Finnish-English): SRC: toivon t&amp;quot;alt&amp;quot;a osin, ett&amp;quot;a yhdistyneiden kansakuntien alaisuudessa k&amp;quot;ayt&amp;quot;aviss&amp;quot;a neuvotteluissa p&amp;quot;a&amp;quot;ast&amp;quot;aisiin sellaiseen lopputulokseen, ett&amp;quot;a kyproksen kreikkalainen ja turkkilainen v&amp;quot;aest&amp;quot;onosa voisivat yhdess&amp;quot;a nauttia liittymisen mukanaan tuomista eduista yhdistetyss&amp;quot;a tasavallassa. BASE: i hope that the united nations in the negotiations to reach a conclusion that the greek and turkish accession to the benefit of the benefits of the republic of ydistetyss&amp;quot;a brings together v&amp;quot;aest&amp;quot;onosa could, in this respect, under the auspices.</Paragraph>
      <Paragraph position="9"> BACKOFF: i hope that the united nations in the negotiations to reach a conclusion that the greek and turkish communities can work together to bring the benefits of the accession of the republic of ydistetyss&amp;quot;a. in this respect, under the REF: in this connection, i would hope that the talks conducted under the auspices of the united nations will be able to come to a successful conclusion enabling the greek and turkish cypriot populations to enjoy the advantages of membership of the european union in the context of a reunified republic.</Paragraph>
      <Paragraph position="10"> Example D. (German-English): SRC:so sind wir beim durcharbeiten des textes verfahren, wobei wir bei einer reihe von punkten versucht haben, noch einige straffungen vorzunehmen.</Paragraph>
      <Paragraph position="11"> BASE: we are in the durcharbeiten procedures of the text, although we have tried to make a few straffungen to carry out on a number of issues.</Paragraph>
      <Paragraph position="12"> BACKOFF: we are in the durcharbeiten procedures, and we have tried to make a few streamlining of the text in a number of points.</Paragraph>
      <Paragraph position="13"> REF: this is how we came to go through the text, and attempted to cut down on certain items in the process.  system, REF = reference). OOVs and their translation are marked in boldface.</Paragraph>
      <Paragraph position="14">  the Finnish language.</Paragraph>
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