Decoding

The decoding process is as follows.

1. Test Corpus

   We prepare the Chinese test sentences.

2. Rule-based Machine Translation

   We used a Chinese-English rule-based machine translation. Thus, we obtain "ENGLISH" test sentences.

3. Statistical Machine Translation System

   Using phrase table in Section 2.1, $N$ -gram model in Section 2.1, and moses[7], we decode the "ENGLISH" sentences. This involves "ENGLISH"-English translation. In this way, we obtain English sentences.

Fig.2 shows the flow chart of the decoding process.

図 2: Flowchart of Decoding