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Syntax-Based Alignment: Supervised or Unsupervised? Hao Zhang and Daniel Gildea Computer Science Department University of Rochester Rochester, NY 14627 Abstract Tree-based approaches to alignment model translation as a sequence of probabilistic op- erations transforming the syntactic parse tree of a sentence in one language into that of the other. The trees may be learned directly from parallel corpora (Wu, 1997), or provided by a parser trained on hand-annotated treebanks (Ya- mada and Knight, 2001). In this paper, we compare these approaches on Chinese-English and French-English datasets, an