Phrase-based SMT models dependencies between words and their translations inside of a phrase well.
dependencies across phrase boundaries are largely ignored due to the strong phrasal inde-German English hat er ein buch gelesen he read a book hat eine pizza gegessen has eaten a pizza er he hat has ein a eine a menge lot of butterkekse butter cookies gegessen eaten buch book zeitung newspaper dann then Table 1: Sample Phrase Table   pendence assumption.