This is not very clear. I think you understood that he wants to translate the perseus corpus, which is what he plans to use as the parallel corpus. However, as far I can see (I just looked a bit) it is not really a good parallel corpus because it is not aligned sentence-level. Alec: if you think you can take - or make - a sentence-level parallel corpus of ancient Greek and English from the Perseus corpus, that might work (there are tools for this sentence-aligning job, but I don't know if they work (well) for ancient Greek).
-- Raphael On 4/24/12, Philipp Koehn <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > first of all, you will need a parallel corpus of ancient Greek and English, > which may not all that easy to come by. > > -phi > > On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 1:33 AM, Alec Battles <[email protected]> > wrote: >> (not a riddle) >> >> due to the fact that no one managed to translate the sublime work that >> is Pappus's Synagoge into english (i know, right?) in time for a >> public-domain version to exist on these interwebs, i feel a desperate >> urge to learn a bit about moses and generate (and possibly polish??) a >> semi-readable machine translation of said classic (one of newton's >> main inspirations for those gosh darn confusing intriguing craaazy >> diagrams in the principia mathematica naturalis philosophae) for my >> own edification. >> >> to that end, i am wondering if anyone can offer any advice regarding >> making use of perseus' ancient greek texts >> (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/opensource/download) for training >> purposes. >> >> this will be first attempt at using moses, so i have no idea what to >> expect, but given that euclid's elements is easy to find in both greek >> and english, and given that i am extremely at ease with the unix >> command line, and something of a language geek, and know enough greek >> to debug things, i figure i'll take the plunge. >> >> so: >> >> 1) does this sound too ambitious? >> 2) has anyone been down this route? >> >> thanks for your time, >> Alec >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > _______________________________________________ Moses-support mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/moses-support
