... monolingual sentence, i denotes the number of words that are aligned with iw. Since a word never collocates with itself, the alignment set is denoted as }&],1[|),{( ialiaiAii. ... 2010.c2010 Association for Computational LinguisticsImproving Statistical Machine Translation with Monolingual Collocation Zhanyi Liu1, Haifeng Wang2, Hua Wu2, Sheng Li1 1Harbin ... score of an align-ment sequence is calculated as in Eq. (10). We note that Eq. (8) only deals with many-to-one alignments, but the alignment sequence of a sentence pair also includes one-to-one...