Ideas for Google Summer of Code/Weighted transfer rules

Example

Transfer rules:

ID	Rule	Input	Output
1	$x$ de $y$ → $x$ $y$	memoria de traducción	translation memory
2	$x$ de $y$ → $y$'s $x$	la hermana de mi novia	my girlfriend's sister
3	$x$ de $y$ → $x$ of $y$	el estado de la cuestión	the state of the art

Training

• Take a big corpus
• For each sentence:
  • Apply transfer rules
  • For each possible combination of transfer rules
    • Translate the sentence and score on language model
    • Each sentence gets a count 1. This count is shared between the transfer rules.

	La canciller se reúne hoy con el presidente de EE UU para limar asperezas y preparar la cumbre del miércoles con Putin.
1 1	The chancellor gathers today with [the U.S. president] for mend fences and prepare [the Wednesday summit] with Putin.	-74.55
2 1	The chancellor gathers today with [the U.S.'s president] for mend fences and prepare [the Wednesday summit] with Putin.	-69.51
3 1	The chancellor gathers today with [the president of the U.S.] for mend fences and prepare [the Wednesday summit] with Putin.	-74.47
1 2	The chancellor gathers today with [the U.S. president] for mend fences and prepare [the Wednesday's summit] with Putin.	-75.02
2 2	The chancellor gathers today with [the U.S.'s president] for mend fences and prepare [the Wednesday's summit] with Putin.	-69.98
3 2	The chancellor gathers today with [the president of the U.S.] for mend fences and prepare [the Wednesday's summit] with Putin.	-74.94
1 3	The chancellor gathers today with [the U.S. president] for mend fences and prepare [the summit of the Wednesday] with Putin.	-82.88
2 3	The chancellor gathers today with [the U.S.'s president] for mend fences and prepare [the summit of the Wednesday] with Putin.	-77.84
3 3	The chancellor gathers today with [the president of the U.S.] for mend fences and prepare [the summit of the Wednesday] with Putin.	-82.80