# 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.

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