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+# Semantic parsing as machine translation
+
+Most work on semantic parsing, even in variable-free formulations, has focused
+on developing task- and formalism-specific models, often with expensive
+training and decoding procedures. Can we use standard machine translation tools
+to perform the same task?
+
+Yes.
+
+For a description of the system (it's really not complicated), see:
+
+- J Andreas, A Vlachos and S Clark. "Semantic Parsing as Machine
+ Translation". To appear in ACL-SHORT 2013.
+
+### How do I