Such distortions in the word reordering will be quite difficult for the word or phrase-based alignment model to capture.
with the application of a reordering rule to reposition the child CP after its sibling NP under a parent NP, and the PP VP reordering rule for VP introduced previously, the sentence can be easily transformed into "French delegation participate 8 th handicap people Winter Olympics hold at US Salt Lake City," a sentence whose word order is much closer to that of English.