... fertility of e ), (the fertility of the NULLword), (the k French word produced by e in a),(the position of in f), (the position of the first fertileword to the left of e in a), (the ceiling of the ... success of any statistical machine translation system. The decoder’s job isto find the translation that is most likelyaccording to set of previously learnedparameters (and a formula for combin-ing ... Definition of the ProblemIf we observe a new sentence f, then an optimaldecoder will search for an e that maximizes P(ef)1The symbols in this formula are: (the length of e),(the length off),...