I find that it helps to think of them as the somewhat convoluted pair "foreign" and "emitted".
/Markus On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 11:51, Jehan Pages <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> >> -- >> The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in >> Scotland, with registration number SC005336. >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Moses-support mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/moses-support > _______________________________________________ Moses-support mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/moses-support
