Machine translation (MT) from Chinese to English has been a difficult problem: structural differences between Chinese and English, such as the different orderings of head nouns and relative clauses, cause BLEU scores to be consistently lower than for other difficult language pairs like Arabic-English. But use of hierarchical decoders has not solved the DE construction translation problem. An alternative way of dealing with structural differences is to reorder source language sentences to minimize structural divergence with the target language, (Xia and McCord, 2004; Collins et al., 2005;<cite> Wang et al., 2007)</cite> .