Hi,

On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 6:33 PM, Barry Haddow
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> Is that historical naming?
>> Just out of curiosity.
>> Thanks!
>>
>
> Hi Jehan
>
> Yes, this politically incorrect terminology is purely historical, and as you
> say moses can be used for any language pair, given appropriate data.
> In fact, the 'f' originally stood for 'French', since the early work on
> statistical machine translation (eg http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/J93-2003)
> dealt with French-English translation, using Canadian parliamentary
> proceedings,

Funny. Thanks for the answer! :-)

Jehan

> cheers - Barry
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