TY - JOUR T1 - Challenges in building an Arabic-English GHMT system with SMT components JF - Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT-2006) Y1 - 2006 A1 - Habash,N. A1 - Dorr, Bonnie J A1 - Monz,C. AB - The research context of this paper is de-veloping hybrid machine translation (MT) systems that exploit the advantages of linguistic rule-based and statistical MT systems. Arabic, as a morphologically rich language, is especially challenging even without addressing the hybridiza- tion question. In this paper, we describe the challenges in building an Arabic- English generation-heavy machine trans- lation (GHMT) system and boosting it with statistical machine translation (SMT) components. We present an extensive evaluation of multiple system variants and report positive results on the advantages of hybridization. ER -