Dear João I promise I wasn't being rude about your program!
The only thing is your filepath constructors are windows-specific instead of platform-independent. Once the file paths are fixed, the python script will run on a Mac (and presumably other unices). re Macs: you might be aware of py2app which is exactly like py2exe but for Macs. Your app looks like it could be v useful for our project (essentially, trying out machine translation on a specific domain). If we do use it, I'll be sure to feedback to you directly. Best wishes Ivan João Rosas wrote: > > Dear Ivan, > > The starting idea was that, in order to get best results with MT, one should > try > to use a corpus adequate for one's own context. That must surely be the > stumbling block that most users have to try to overcome. I believe that most > translators use Windows platforms. I also notice that some are quite > suspicious > about MT. I therefore thought that this very small program could ease the path > to MT, both because it creates a corpus that much more probably will lead to > good results and because translators can ask anybody knowledgeable in Linux to > feed Moses something that they themselves prepared and control (assuming that > most wouldn't be able to install and run Moses). In fact, I envisioned it as > some sort of "killer application" that entices their interest on this subject > (though one's intentions do not always translate into concrete results ;-) ). > in > fact, already in this mailing list, someone has recently asked for corpora! > > However, I see your point: the program could also be useful in a Linux setting > and there is no reason to discriminate between these 2 worlds. Let me make it > clear: that was not at all my intention. However, I have to admit that I am no > Linux wizard, on the contrary (some friends are pressing me hard to change > that > situation, but it will take time). Should you like to help me build on your > idea, I would gladly accept your help. If that leads to good results, we could > publish them together. I'll be glad if you give it a try and let me know your > impression about it. > > Best regards, > > João > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Moses-support mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/moses-support > -- ******************************** Ivan Uemlianin Canolfan Bedwyr Safle'r Normal Site Prifysgol Bangor University BANGOR Gwynedd LL57 2PZ [email protected] ******************************** _______________________________________________ Moses-support mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/moses-support
