Hi Ivan

On Tuesday 23 August 2011 09:45, [email protected] wrote:
> I'm new to that ml, and to Moses, and I have several questions
> about that software:
> 1. What are the minimum hardware requirements for
> model training in moses?  For example a server with that
> configuration:
>    Memory: >= 4gb
>    CPU: = 2 Cores

It really depends how big your models are. That configuration will only work 
with fairly small models. Since a lot of the training is done on disk, you 
need plenty of disk space too. 

> 2. If i plan to
> use the  mosesserver application it is ok to place it in the same
> server where the models are trained? Or is better to have them on a
> different server?

There's no problem with doing this, except that if you want to run training 
and run the mosesserver at the same time, then your machine needs to have 
sufficient resources.

> 3. Is possible to load more than one language model
> in one moses server instance? If not, How many server instances could
> run on the same server. A configuration of 4gb ram and 1 cpu is ok?

Yes, you can load more than 1 LM in a moses server instance. Again, your 
configuration depends on the size of the models, but that machine would only 
work with small models. Our experimental machines have 32-72 G ram, and 8-16 
cpus.

> 4.
> Actually i'm running moses on a test environment with 2 istances of
> moses server. The translation seems to be ok. But i have a problem, if
> the phrase contains punctuation, the words with punctuation are not
> translated.
>
> For example:
> put here your text  -->       introducir aquí su
> texto
> put here your text.  -->      introducir aquí su text
>
> There is a
> solution to avoid that?

Yes, you need to tokenise your input. Look at the moses step-by-step guide. 
http://www.statmt.org/moses_steps.html

> 5. Is There a way to have case insensitive
> translations? (Actually i need to lower the input string).

Yes, moses includes a script for lowercasing. Again, this is covered in the 
step-by-step guide.

> 6. Is there
> some kind of support for doc, pdf  (in general documents) translation
> in moses?
>

There are no tools in moses itself to handle pdf documents. However there are 
various tools built on top of moses which might have this support,

cheers - Barry

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