Hi,

the IBM Models of GIZA++ are too complicated to be used
for simple monotone alignment. I am not aware of any
switches that would allow this either.

I suggest to look at finite state machine tools such as
OpenFST - http://www.openfst.org/

-phi

On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 5:29 AM, Dario Ernst <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello dear list,
>
> first off, i'm not quite sure this is the correct list to ask GIZA++
> questions - if not, please just tell me ;). I'm sorry for the trouble in
> that case.
>
> Anyways, my question. I'm currently trying to use GIZA++ together with
> PISA (http://pisa.googlecode.com/) to create monotone (linear?)
> alignments of words and phoneme-strings. For PISA i believe i've already
> found a way (thanks to the nice help of the author!), but for GIZA i'm a
> bit at loss. Is there some external parameter that i can set, or would
> digging the source be necessary? If so (and i've already started to try
> to familiarize myself a bit with the GIZA internals), what would be a
> good starting point to look at? Unfortunately i'm  not that good with
> SMT internals yet, so it'd be a bit hard for me ... so at this point any
> help, input and tips would be greatly appreciated!
>
> Best Regards from Germany (and, please excuse my bad english ;P), thanks
> for reading this ;)
>
> --
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> dimensions.  -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
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