The standard configuration of modern phrasebased Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) (Koehn et al., 2003) systems can produce very acceptable results on some tasks.
first, concerning the rewriting phrase table, for the k=5 (rpt5pef) and k=10 (rpt10pef) configurations 9 a decrease of 0.7-0.8 BLEU over reranker is obtained.