That is, we make the (frequently correct) assumption that at least one alignment link in a many-to-many correspondence is correctly identified in the initial 3 This is a well-known characteristic of statistical alignment systems-motivated by the need to ensure a target-word translation ei for each source word fj while modeling p(F |E) -for downstream MT.
4 we conducted a preliminary study using 40 manually-aligned English-Spanish sentences from a mixed corpus (UN + Bible + FBIS) as our gold standard.