http://code.google.com/p/moses-for-mere-mortals/
This site offers a set of 3 scripts that, together, create a basic translation chain prototype (with Moses + IRSTLM) able of processing very large corpora. The idea is to help build a translation chain for the real world, but it should also enable a quick evaluation of Moses for actual translation work and guide users in their first steps of using Moses. It is mainly composed of Bash scripts that automate the installation, the training and the translation tasks. It includes documentation on how to use these scripts and provides a demonstration corpus (too small for doing justice to the qualitative results that can be achieved with Moses, but capable of giving a realistic view of the relative duration of the steps involved). For building very large corpora using your own translation memories (*.TMX files), please see http://code.google.com/p/extract-tmx-corpus/. One would expect that the users of these scripts, perhaps after having tried the demonstration corpus, immediately use and get results with the real corpora they are interested in. The scripts were tested in Ubuntu 9.04. Some users report problems compiling IRSTLM in Ubuntu 9.10. Though already tested and used in practical work, this should be considered a work in progress. So as to protect the users not yet completely acquainted with Moses, these scripts try to avoid mistakes that would cost them dearly in terms of time and/or results. That makes them a bit inflexible for the time being, but complete modularity and a flexible, user-friendly approach are very much in the centre of these project's intentions. _______________________________________________ Moses-support mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/moses-support
