... 153–156,Columbus, Ohio, USA, June 2008.c2008 Association for Computational LinguisticsSegmentation for English-to-Arabic Statistical Machine TranslationIbrahim Badr Rabih ZbibComputer Science ... of ini-tial results for English-to-Arabic Statistical Machine Translation (SMT). We show thatmorphological decomposition of the Arabicsource is beneficial, especially for smaller-sizecorpora, ... clitics. For example, for the wordwlAwlAdh (’and for his kids’), the factored words areAwlAd and w+l+N+P:3MS. We use two languagemodels: a trigram for surface words and a 7-gram for the POS+clitic...