... 0.2, 0.5 and 1.0 for the aren-phrase, aren-hier, aren-samt,zhen-phrase zhen-hier and zhen-samt systems re-spectively. For the multi-language case, we trainphrase-based systems and perform lattice ... incorporate theerror criterion are Minimum Error Rate Train-ing (MERT) (Och, 2003) and Minimum Bayes-Risk (MBR) decoding (Kumar and Byrne, 2004).These two techniques were originally developed for ... theruntimes for both MERT and MBR, and gives per-formance improvements from MBR decoding.SMT systems based on synchronous contextfree grammars (SCFG) (Chiang, 2007; Zollmann and Venugopal,...