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

[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 related to AI techniques.
Thanks,
Arjun Upadhyaya


Re:[Moses-support] ’Code monkey available. Will work for peanuts’ !

Hi Arjun,
Why Moses? If I you don’t mind me asking you such question.
Catalin Braescu
Omlulu.com

Re:[Moses-support] ’Code monkey available. Will work for peanuts’ !

Hi Catalin,
I want to work on MOSES as it is one of the best open source
intelligent automatic language translation engine !!! So if you have any ideas related to the application of genetic algorithms/ swarm intelligence on language translation do let me know.
Thanks a lot in advance !!!
Arjun

Re:[Moses-support] ’Code monkey available. Will work for peanuts’ !

hey arjun

glad to see someone has read the FAQ!

using other search algorithms like GA or swarm is an interesting idea. you may want to look at this paper which uses random sampling for decoding

http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/s0343799/conll09_arun_et_al.pdf

Its operators would be similar to mutation and crossover operators you
would need for GA.

Re:[Moses-support] ’Code monkey available. Will work for peanuts’ !

Hey Hieu Hoang,

Thank you very much for re directing me to that paper which uses random sampling for decoding sentences on to the target language. So I just want to ask you whether I should use MOSES as an evaluating toolkit like BLEU or can I incorporate GA’s within MOSES itself.
Also are there any other papers which deal with the same subject???

Thanks in advance !!!
Arjun Upadhyaya

Re:[Moses-support] ’Code monkey available. Will work for peanuts’ !

we did something similar, but we used a greedy algorithm to improve existing translations:

http://www.mt-archive.info/TMI-2007-Langlais.pdf

which is similar to what Germann et al did a while ago with their ReWrite decoder:

http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/projects/rewrite/decoder.pdf

Depending on how you use GA, I guess these would be fair baselines to compare against.

Best regards,

Alexandre Patry

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