Training Step 4: Get Lexical Translation Table

Given this alignment, it is quite straight-forward to estimate a maximum likelihood lexical translation table. We estimate the w(e|f) as well as the inverse w(f|e) word translation table. Here are the top translations for europa into English:

 > grep ' europa ' model/lex.f2n | sort -nrk 3 | head
 europe europa 0.8874152
 european europa 0.0542998
 union europa 0.0047325
 it europa 0.0039230
 we europa 0.0021795
 eu europa 0.0019304
 europeans europa 0.0016190
 euro-mediterranean europa 0.0011209
 europa europa 0.0010586
 continent europa 0.0008718