@InProceedings{daiber-stanojevic-simaan:2016:COLING,
  author    = {Daiber, Joachim  and  Stanojevi\'{c}, Milo\v{s}  and  Sima'an, Khalil},
  title     = {Universal Reordering via Linguistic Typology},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Technical Papers},
  month     = {December},
  year      = {2016},
  address   = {Osaka, Japan},
  publisher = {The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee},
  pages     = {3167--3176},
  abstract  = {In this paper we explore the novel idea of building a single universal
	reordering model from English to a large number of target languages. To build
	this model we exploit typological features of word order for a large number of
	target languages together with source (English) syntactic features and we train
	this model on a single combined parallel corpus representing all (22) involved
	language pairs. We contribute experimental evidence for the usefulness of
	linguistically defined typological features for building such a model. When the
	universal reordering model is used for preordering followed by monotone
	translation (no reordering inside the decoder), our experiments show that this
	pipeline gives comparable or improved translation performance with a
	phrase-based baseline for a large number of language pairs (12 out of 22) from
	diverse language families.},
  url       = {http://aclweb.org/anthology/C16-1298}
}