[Moses-support] Copyright application issue for a Snippet Translation System using MOSES
Dear Sir,
We have developed a reordered Phrase based SMT System with reordering of input snippets obtained from a search engine. The system translates English / Hindi snippets to the following Indian languages: Hindi/Bengali/Marathi/Tamil/Telugu/Punjabi. For developing this Snippet Translation system we have used MOSES Training Toolkit and Decoder and also the SRILM toolkit for generating the Language model in English .
The above system was developed by us as Member of the Project Team for R&D project entitled: Development of Cross Lingual Information Access System (CLIA) and the machine translation system is being copyrighted with Department of Information Technology (DIT), Government of India, New Delhi & Jadavpur University, Kolkata as the owners.
Please tell us whether we need to include the reference to MOSES in the application for registration of copyright and how we can do that.
Regards,
Sivaji
Re: [Moses-support] Copyright application issue for a Snippet Translation System using MOSES
Hi Sivaji
Moses is open-source software, licensed under the Gnu Lesser General Public License (LGPL). This means that you are free to use it as you wish in your own system, however the copyright to moses remains with its authors. The LGPL only really matters if you wish to distribute modified versions of moses, outside your organisation.
SRILM is different though. You should check the exact conditions on the SRILM website, but afaik it is only free for research use – there is a license fee for commercial use. If you want an open source language modelling toolkit, then use IRSTLM.
As regards the translations that are output by moses, I’m not sure what their exact status is, but I’m certain that the moses authors do not retain any copyright over these,
Hope that helps,
regards
Barry
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