#9184We directly investigate a subject of much recent debate: do word sense disambigation models help statistical machine translation quality ?
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#9239Using a state-of-the-art Chinese word sense disambiguation model to choose translation candidates for a typical IBM statistical MT system, we find that word sense disambiguation does not yield significantly better translation quality than the statistical machine translation system alone.