hi emmanuel<br>
<br>
there was a paper recently on looking at search space of translation
models and algorithms which may be of interest to you.<br>
<a href="http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/alopez/papers/wmt09-auli+lopez+hoang+koehn.pdf" target="_blank">http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/alopez/papers/wmt09-auli+lopez+hoang+koehn.pdf</a><br>
as chris & kuzman pointed out, 'forced' or 'constrained' decoding
might be what you're looking for and is available on many SMT decoders<br><br>