James Read wrote:

> 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?

Ngrams are not simply words with spaces in them - ngrams =overlap=,  
while words do not.

- John D. Burger
   MITRE

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