... step, the Minimim ErrorRate Training component of our SMT systemiteratively adjusts the set of rule weights, in- cluding the weight associated with the translit-eration feature, such that the ... Arabic word, the linking algorithm triesto find a matching word on the English side, using the transliteration scoring model described in sec-tion 3. If the matcher reaches the end of an Arabicor ... occurrences of the name particle bin in the example above are linked to the proper Ara-bic words, based on the names next to them. The number of links depends, of course, on the specificcorpus, but we...