Hi Vito, English-Japanese and Japanese-English translation are very difficult due to the grammatical differences between the languages.
You have a couple options to overcome this problem: 1) If you want to use phrase-based Moses, you will have to perform some variety of pre-ordering, in which you rearrange the words in the source sentence before training/testing. 2) You can use a syntax-based system, either using the functionality in Moses (http://www.statmt.org/moses/?n=Moses.SyntaxTutorial), or using another decoder specifically designed for syntax-based MT such as my Travatar decoder (http://www.phontron.com/travatar/). I have released the setup for training our strongest Japanese-English and English-Japanese systems here: https://github.com/neubig/wat2014 Regarding the different types of characters, I would leave them as-is. It is possible to perform normalization, which will help in a limited number of cases, but if you're just starting out this is really the least of your problems. Graham On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 7:51 PM, Vito Mandorino < vito.mandor...@linguacustodia.com> wrote: > Dear all, > > does anyone have ever done experiments for English-Japanese and > Japanese-English translation? Do you know about useful ressources for this > language pair, or some specific gotchas one should be aware of? > > More specifically, what is the best policy for dealing with alphabets? Do > you think it is a good idea to keep different alphabets (Kanji, Hiragana, > Katakana, ...) in the corpus, or should one try to convert Kanji into one > of the other alphabets? > > Best regards, > > Vito Mandorino > > -- > *M**. Vito MANDORINO -- Chief Scientist* > > > [image: Description : Description : lingua_custodia_final full logo] > > *The Translation Trustee* > > *1, Place Charles de Gaulle, **78180 Montigny-le-Bretonneux* > > *Tel : +33 1 30 44 04 23 Mobile : +33 6 84 65 68 89 > <%2B33%206%2084%2065%2068%2089>* > > *Email :* *vito.mandor...@linguacustodia.com > <massinissa.ah...@linguacustodia.com>* > > *Website :* > *www.linguacustodia.finance <http://www.linguacustodia.com/>* > > _______________________________________________ > Moses-support mailing list > Moses-support@mit.edu > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/moses-support > >
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