... translationcandidates and word -alignment choices. For ex-ample, the most frequent source words (e.g., func-tional words) are likely to be translated into wordswhich are also frequent on the target side; words ... such as word- pair”, “sentence-pair”, and “document-pair”. Formally, we define the following terms1:• A word- pair (fj, ei) is the basic unit for word alignment, where fjis a French word ... to avoid over tting:B∗f,e,k= λBf,e,k+(1−λ)p(f|e). (13)As in Eqn. 1, p(f|e) is learned via IBM-1; λ isestimated via EM on held out data.4.3 Retrieving Word AlignmentsTwo word- alignment...