Monthly Archives: November 2009

A Cool Dictionary for Natural Language Processing

Posted on November 30, 2009 by 52nlp

I found Professor Bill Wilson’s “The Natural Language Processing Dictionary” accidentally tonight, and thought it very cool for nlpers. Except from the NLP Dictionary, you also can find the Prolog, Artificial Intelligence and Machine learning Dictionary in this web page. … Continue reading →

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Moses Support Digest:Suffix arrays in Moses

Posted on November 29, 2009 by 52nlp

[Moses-support] Suffix arrays in Moses Hi all, I’m just wanting to double-check the current state of the suffix array code in Moses. Can it be used to extract translation table entries on-the-fly? Also, has anyone written up a paper on … Continue reading →

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Moses Support Digest:RDBMS for the decoder

Posted on November 27, 2009 by 52nlp

[Moses-support] RDBMS for the decoder? I wonder what would be the implications if a RDBMS would be used for the decoder. I;m also wondering what Google Translate uses – is there any public info about them in this respect? Catalin … Continue reading →

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Moses Support Digest:openTMS supports Moses as a data source

Posted on November 27, 2009 by 52nlp

[Moses-support] problem with boost library openTMS is a Open Source Translation Memory initiative which has produced its first software versions on www.opentms.de. The latest version also includes an interface for using MOSES within the translation process. MOSES is accessed thru … Continue reading →

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Moses Support Digest:moses decoder results on cygwin and dos

Posted on November 27, 2009 by 52nlp

[Moses-support] moses decoder results on cygwin and dos Dear All Running the moses decoder on cygwin and dos gives slightly different results, even though I’m using the same executable and the same models. For example, translating from Welsh to English: … Continue reading →

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Moses Support Digest:Code monkey available,Will work for peanuts

Posted on November 26, 2009 by 52nlp

[Moses-support] ’Code monkey available. Will work for peanuts’ ! Hello, I’m a graduate student at Bowling Green State University and I’m really interested in working on a term project using MOSES. So can anyone suggest me some good project ideas … Continue reading →

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Moses Support Digest:A translation chain prototype with Moses + IRSTLM

Posted on November 26, 2009 by 52nlp

[Moses-support] Moses Support Digest:A translation chain prototype with Moses + IRSTLM http://code.google.com/p/moses-for-mere-mortals/ This site offers a set of 3 scripts that, together, create a basic translation chain prototype (with Moses + IRSTLM) able of processing very large corpora. The idea … Continue reading →

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Moses Support Digest:Pulling source data

Posted on November 26, 2009 by 52nlp

[Moses-support] Pulling source data I am experimenting with the Moses application now, and I have it so that it is pulling in my data from two flat, aligned text files. My question is, can I pull in data from a … Continue reading →

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Moses Support Digest:Hierarchical rule extraction

Posted on November 25, 2009 by 52nlp

[Moses-support] Hierarchical rule extraction Hieu / Philipp, I’d like to extract a hierarchical grammar using the Moses tools (which Philipp helpfully pointed out have some documentation at http://www.statmt.org/moses/?n=Moses.ChartDecoding) Here’s the catch: I already have run train-factored-phrase-model.perl to extract a regular … Continue reading →

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Moses Support Digest:Building POS language model with SRILM

Posted on November 25, 2009 by 52nlp

[Moses-support] Building POS language model with SRILM Hi, The Moses manual recommends using the following switches when building a language model with SRILM: 　　-interpolate -kndiscount I assume this recommendation applies specifically to surface-string language models. For a part-of-speech language model, … Continue reading →

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