As of today it is possible to run Moses with the IRSTLM language modeling toolkit in Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). EC2 allows you to rent compute resources in Amazon’s data centers for Moses training and decoding.
We put together a Amazon Machine Image (AMI) necessary for this and it is available free of charge (we don’t have an affiliation with Amazon). You still will have to sign up for an Amazon Web Services account to pay for the Amazon usage charges. If you are in the academic field there are some options for free Amazon credits: http://aws.amazon.com/education/ You can find info on the AMI on the Amazon directory page: http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/entry.jspa?externalID=3058&categoryID=208 as well as our software information page: http://www.digitalsilkroad.net/software.html There you can also find a tutorial for Windows users on how to use Moses on EC2 which should make getting started easy. If you have a different desktop OS or generally want to gain more control I would definitely recommend reading Amazon’s Getting Started Guide for EC2: http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSEC2/latest/GettingStartedGuide/ I checked with the moses-support owners and for now it is fine to have discussions about Moses on EC2 on this mailing list. So please go ahead and use the AMI and let me know how it goes! I am looking for help in two areas: 1. Tutorials for users of other operating systems 2. For the owners of publicly available parallel corpora to contribute these to Amazon’s Public Data Set repository Happy Translations! Achim Ruopp Digital Silk Road http://www.digitalsilkroad.net/
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