... Association for Computational Linguistics:shortpapers, pages 176–181,Portland, Oregon, June 19-24, 2011.c2011 Association for Computational LinguisticsBetter Hypothesis Testing for Statistical Machine ... USA{jhclark,cdyer,alavie,nasmith}@cs.cmu.eduAbstractIn statistical machine translation, a researcherseeks to determine whether some innovation(e.g., a new feature, model, or inference al-gorithm) improves translation quality ... experimen-tal outcomes, and make recommendations for reporting results more accurately.1 IntroductionThe need for statistical hypothesis testing for ma-chine translation (MT) has been acknowledged sinceat...