And just to repeat: LanguageModelInternal (the 3-gram implementation you 
mentioned) was removed from the source code.

Kenneth

On 07/03/2012 12:48 PM, Tom Hoar wrote:
>   Ken, Hieu, Thanks for the updates. Our messages crossed. Consider my
>   comments both a history lesson and confirmation that training/tuning
>   requires a posix host.
>
>   Tom
>
>
>   On Tue, 03 Jul 2012 23:45:12 +0700, Tom Hoar
>   <[email protected]>  wrote:
>> Jose,
>>
>>   I just caught another part of your message "I assume that is
>> possible
>>   to transfer the scripts that I have trained on Ubuntu to Windows."
>>
>>   If you're talking about transferring the training scripts to MS
>> Windows
>>   and training on Windows, this assumption is incorrect. Training a
>>   translation model uses a variety of Perl&  shell scripts to train
>> the
>>   language model and t-tables. Those scripts call out to various C++
>> apps
>>   and in some cases Python scripts. Many of these scripts and C++
>>   application simply do not run on Windows. It might be possible to
>> update
>>   the Perl and Python scripts, but the shell scripts would have to be
>>   re-written in another language and the C++ apps would need major
>> work
>>   because many call-out to native Posix/Linux resources (e.g. "sort").
>>
>>   If you're talking about transferring the trained/tuned translation
>>   models to MS Windows, the previous messages apply. The blog you
>> refer to
>>   was written in Jan 2010 and used a 2009 version of Moses with the
>>   SRILM-compatible 3-gram limited language model. If this compile
>> option
>>   is still valid, you would have to train/tune translation models on
>>   Linux/Posix with 3-gram SRILM-compatible language model, then
>>   transfer/run them on MS Windows. KenLM language models would not be
>> an
>>   option. I don't remember if binarized phrase/reordering tables were
>>   supported on Windows. Therefore, your MS Windows system would
>> require
>>   plenty of RAM resources.
>>
>>   I have no idea if the newer moses code for hierarchical models would
>>   compile/run as a native MS Windows app.
>>
>>   Tom
>>
>>
>>   On Tue, 3 Jul 2012 17:09:15 +0100, Barry Haddow
>>   <[email protected]>  wrote:
>>> Hi Jose
>>>
>>> Moses is a command line application, so the usual way to use it on
>>> windows
>>> would be through cygwin.
>>>
>>> If you want to use Moses in a GUI application, then probably the
>>> best
>>> way is
>>> to run Moses server and have the GUI communicate with the server.
>>> This has
>>> been discussed on this list before.
>>>
>>> cheers  - Barry
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tuesday 03 July 2012 13:03:14 Jose Casimiro Pereira wrote:
>>>> Hi everyone.
>>>>
>>>> First of all, I apologize for my English.
>>>>
>>>> I'm a PhD student, from Portugal, and I'm starting to study and use
>>>> MOSES
>>>>   tool. I installed MOSES on Ubuntu and everything works fine.
>>>> The corpora that I have, was properly trained and worked fine with
>>>> MOSES.
>>>>
>>>> For several constraints of the project I work, we need to put MOSES
>>>> working on Microsoft Windows.
>>>> I downloaded MOSES' source and compiled it, and I think it was well
>>>> compiled (I was inspired by Wang Pidong instructions
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> (http://wangpidong.blogspot.pt/2010/01/how-to-compile-moses-under-visual.ht
>>>> ml)).
>>>>
>>>> The problem that I have, and for that I ask for help, is this:
>>>> - how to make MOSES work on Windows? How to use MOSES to translate
>>>> corpora?
>>>>
>>>> I read that is possible to transfer the training scripts from one
>>>> location to another. So, I assume that is possible to transfer the
>>>> scripts that I have trained on Ubuntu to Windows. But, again, how
>>>> to
>>>> use
>>>>   them? I haven't seen any example of it.
>>>>
>>>> There are several examples explaining how to use MOSES on Cygwin,
>>>> but
>>>> we pretend to use it outside Cygwin.
>>>> I  have seen examples, too, using MOSES on Linux and accessing it
>>>> from Windows, using PuTTY. But, that isn't what we desired to use.
>>>>
>>>> I'll appreciate any help you could do.
>>>>
>>>> Many thanks.
>>>> j.casimiro
>>>>
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