, m], the alignment to the source and its translation is independent of all other translation and alignment decisions.
6 Second, using a 10k sample of the French-English data set (only 0.5% of the corpus), we determined 1) whether p 0 should be optimized; 2) what the optimal Dirichlet parameters µ i are; and 3) whether the commonly used "staged initialization" procedure (in which Model 1 parameters are used to initialize Model 2, etc.)