Goodridge, Andrew2008-11-102007Stuart M. Shieber. Probabilistic synchronous tree-adjoining grammars for machine translation: The argument from bilingual dictionaries. In Dekai Wu and David Chiang, editors, Proceedings of the Workshop on Syntax and Structure in Statistical Translation, Rochester, New York, 26 April 2007.http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:2252607We provide a conceptual basis for thinking of machine translation in terms of synchronous grammars in general, and probabilistic synchronous tree-adjoining grammars in particular. Evidence for the view is found in the structure of bilingual dictionaries of the last several millennia.en-US