... anEnglish -to- Pashto translation task by com-bining the alignments obtained from syn-tactic reordering, stemming, and partialwords. The combined alignment outper-forms the baseline alignment, ... ofalignments into one big set (shown as cat). Over-all, the BLEU score with confidence-based com-bination was increased by 1 point compared to thebaseline, 0.6 compared to gdf, and 0.7 compared to cat. ... models. In Proc. of ACL, pages440–447, Hong Kong, China, October.Franz Josef Och. 2003. Minimum error rate training in statistical machine translation. In Proc. of ACL,pages 160–167.Kishore Papineni,...