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  <Title>Improved HMM Alignment Models for Languages with Scarce Resources</Title>
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4 Conclusions
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    <Paragraph position="0"> We have proposed improvements to the largely overlooked HMM word alignment model. Our improvements yield good results on the workshop data. We have additionally shown that syntactic information can be incorporated into such a model; although the results are not superior, they are competitive with surface distortion. In future work we expect to explore additional parameterizations of the HMM model, and to perform extrinsic evaluations of the resulting alignments by using them in the parameter estimation of a phrase-based translation model.</Paragraph>
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