%0 Journal Article %J Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT-2006) %D 2006 %T Challenges in building an Arabic-English GHMT system with SMT components %A Habash,N. %A Dorr, Bonnie J %A Monz,C. %X 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. %B Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT-2006) %P 56 - 65 %8 2006/// %G eng