Moses Support Digest: Word Alignment – Moses

[Moses-support] Word Alignment – Moses?

Hi..
Couldy you please tell me if I can use Moses as a tool like Giza++ for the purpose word alignment. If yes could you give me the link of where can I get further refernce wrt this. Could you tell me any other word alignment tool for parallel corpora which could come to my aid apart from Giza++, NATool.

Thank you for your time

Mohnish

Re:[Moses-support] Word Alignment – Moses?

Hi Mohnish,

Word alignment is one of many steps that Moses needs to perform as a complete machine translation package. By default Moses calls GIZA++ for this purpose, but you can make it work with other word aligners as well. Personally I like the Berkeley aligner better
http://code.google.com/p/berkeleyaligner/, but GIZA++ is by far the
most commonly used.

Liu Chang

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