Overview (Cont’d)
A large part of implementing an MT system [e.g., probabilistic parsing, word sense disambiguation] is not specific to MT and is discussed in other, more general chapters.
Nonetheless, parts of MT that are specific to it are: text alignment and word alignment.
Definition: In the sentence alignment problem, one seeks to say that some group of sentences in one language corresponds in content to some other group of sentences in another language. Such a grouping is referred to as a bead of sentences.