Hi Ken, You can also watch the video tutorials that Barry, Maxim and I put together: https://www.tauslabs.com/open-source-mt/mosescore/50-moses-tutorial-guest
Achim > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:moses-support- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Tom Hoar > Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2013 8:55 AM > To: Ken Fasano; Moses-Support > Subject: Re: [Moses-support] Newbie- how to get from HERE to THERE w/o > background in SMT > > Hi Ken, > > You might consider starting with one of the packaged distributions of > Moses to get you through the hump. There are several to choose from. > > http://www.statmt.org/moses/?n=Moses.Packages > > Our distro is DoMY CE v2.5. Version 1.0 was released in November 2010. > The current version has Moses beta 0.91 and we will upgrade to RELEASE > 1.0 in the next few weeks. It also includes all source code so you can > compile changes to Moses' kernel, and scripts to integrate those > changes to your runtime if you like. > > Tom > > > > On 03/09/2013 08:55 PM, Philipp Koehn wrote: > > Hi, > > > > you seem to have the right background and have made the right first > > steps! > > > > For the practical use of Moses you will not fully understand all the > > intracies of the underlying mathematical models such the details of > EM > > training of IBM Models in GIZA++. And the dominant model (the phrase > > model) is not very linguistically sophisticated. > > > > If you have to deal with very large corpora, I'd suggest to take a > > closer look at the pruning and compact representation methods > > described in the advanced feature section: > > http://www.statmt.org/moses/?n=Moses.AdvancedFeatures > > > > -phi > > > > On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 9:52 AM, Ken Fasano <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> My task, at work, is to learn Moses and SMT well enough so that in a > >> year or so we can leverage a huge (billion word) multi-language > corpora (mostly W. > >> European, but possibly also Chinese, Japanese, Korean) to translate > >> across industries (electronics stores, transportation, government, > >> etc.). I'm the only one in the company working on this. I am > starting out with 30 yrs. > >> experience as a software developer, so Linux, C++, Perl, etc. are > old > >> friends. My linguistic background is almost nil, except for the > >> ability to read German, French, Spanish, Italian and a little Greek, > >> and understand their grammars, as well as concepts such as CFGs. My > >> major in college (years > >> ago!) was music composition; my sole linguistics course was IPA > >> phonetics (the composer Stockhausen told me to take it!), and the > >> nearest I've been to the math involved in SMT is Markov chains > (thanks to the composer Xenakis). > >> I've been playing with Moses, going through the tutorials, reading > as > >> much on the web as I can, understanding some of the concepts but > >> freaked out by the math. I've ordered Dr. Koehn's book; it hasn't > arrived yet. > >> > >> I'd deeply appreciate any tips on how to get from HERE to THERE! > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> 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 _______________________________________________ Moses-support mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/moses-support
