The development sets used for tuning and testing the corpus weights and other MT settings were comprised of documents from previous Arabic-English NIST MT evaluation sets and from GALE development/evaluation sets.
the newswire Tune and Test sets consist of documents from the following collections: the newswire portion of NIST MT04, MT05, MT06, and MT08 evaluation sets, the GALE Phase 1 (P1) and Phase 2 (P2) evaluation sets, and the GALE P2 and P3 development sets.