... Association for Computational Linguistics:shortpapers, pages 424–428,Portland, Oregon, June 19-24, 2011.c2011 Association for Computational LinguisticsDiscriminative Feature-Tied Mixture Modeling for ... feature types,word alignments, or domains, for various ap-plications. The proposed approach improvesthe translation performance significantly on a large-scale Arabic-to-English MT task.1 IntroductionSignificant ... to max-imize the translation performance. This ap-proach aims at bridging the gap between themaximum-likelihood training and the discrim-inative training for SMT. It is shown that thefeature...