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?

Neither. The problem is data sparsity.

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