The Universität Karlsruhe Translation System for the EACL-WMT 2009

In this paper we describe the statistical machine translation system of the Universität Karlsruhe developed for the translation task of the Fourth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation. The state-ofthe-art phrase-based SMT system is augmented with alternative word reordering and alignment mechanisms as well as optional phrase table modifications. We participate in the constrained condition of German-English and English-German as well as in the constrained condition of French-English and English-French.