I will add it as a pipeline option (--aligner {giza,berkeley,fast_align}. will
wait until after the 252 merge.
matt (from my phone)
> On May 20, 2016, at 12:50 PM, Lewis John Mcgibbney
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Nice. I'll build this into JOSHUA-252.
> We can ship and build with this :)
>
> On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 2:13 AM, <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> From: kellen sunderland <[email protected]>
>> To: [email protected]
>> Cc:
>> Date: Thu, 19 May 2016 10:08:08 +0200
>> Subject: GIZA++ alternative
>> My colleagues reminded me that we can use the FastAlign package (
>> https://github.com/clab/fast_align ) as an alternative to GIZA++.
>> FastAlign implements a modification of the IBM Model 2 algorithm to produce
>> word alignments (paper here: http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/N13-1073.pdf
>> ). It's Apache 2 licensed and I believe it should perform the same basic
>> functions as GIZA++ (correct me if I'm wrong Matt). I've been using it on
>> my project to generate alignments and haven't had any issues.
>>
>> -Kellen
>>
>>
