On Friday 27 February 2009 09:12, James Read wrote: > Thanks for the off-list link. It was very useful. > > Forgive me for my ignorance but what exactly is the problem with using > Giza++ for n-gram alignment? A single word is just a string of > letters. An n-gram is a string of letters with some spaces in between. > Why should using Giza for aligning strings of letters with spaces in > between be any different to aligning strings of letters? Is this just > a problem of computation time and limited computational resources?
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