Hi Hieu Hoang, Thanks for your response. Appreciate your candid feedback.
Apologies for not going over the website first. I will surely do that and might have more questions as I start learning it. Regarding MOSES on Android, I haven't done much market research(will definitely do some research as you had suggested) but i am guessing mobile devices being so ubiquitous these days, an Android app will definitely be useful. Again that's just a hunch. I could be wrong. And regarding the foot print, from what you mentioned, I deduce the following: Approximately 500MB storage space for models( for one translation model, so if i use the reverse translation model say for example, spanish-english, I am guessing the storage requirement would approximately double) and approximately 1GB RAM. Am I correct in my understanding? That's a lot of storage and memory requirements. However, the hardware for mobile devices have been improving at a fast pace these days, so pretty soon this should be an ok requirement in my opinion. Apart from the storage and memory, the important metric is speed. Not sure how fast it would be on a mobile device(of-course it depends on the CPU speed, # of cores etc. on the target device) I just checked the MOSES license.It says LGPL. Most of the open source software I have been using is Apache licensing(like Tensorflow etc.). Not sure how LGPL differs from Apache. I will have to do some research on this. Again thanks a lot. Regards On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 4:49 AM, Hieu Hoang <[email protected]> wrote: > If you are new to MT and Moses, please make sure you have read the website > and done the tutorials before asking too many questions: > http://www.statmt.org/moses/ > > Hieu Hoang > http://moses-smt.org/ <http://www.hoang.co.uk/hieu> > > On 27 December 2016 at 20:23, Ri ki <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I forgot to add one other question: >> >> 6) What type of license does MOSES have? Apache? BSD? MIT? GPL? >> > See website > >> >> Thanks again >> >> On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 2:36 PM, Ri ki <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I am new to Machine translation. I was doing some googling and stumbled >>> upon Moses. >>> >>> I have the following questions: >>> >>> 1) What is the footprint of Moses(for one bilingual translation, say >>> english-spanish?(including all the necessary models and binaries) >>> >> Total model sizes + around 500MB-1GB RAM > >> >>> 2) Can Moses be run on a mobile device standalone i.e without going to >>> server at all? My aim is to create an Android app. Is it feasible at all to >>> run Moses as a standalone application on mobile devices? >>> >> It's been tried a few times, eg > https://github.com/moses-smt/mosesdecoder/tree/android-ui > >> >>> 3) Has anyone tried it? If so can you please provide some input? >>> >> Ask yourself - so you put a decoder onto a phone. Then what? What value > can you add? Who is interested? Who will pay for your time? > >> >>> 4) If it is indeed possible to run Moses standalone on a Mobile >>> device(probably by pruning down the models to be able to fit on mobile >>> devices), what is the loss in accuracy when compared to the server version? >>> BLEU scores would help. >>> >>> 5) Are there any other alternatives to MOSES that I can run on mobile >>> devices? >>> >> Let us know if you find out > >> >>> >>> Any help is greatly appreciated. >>> >>> Thanks in advance >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Moses-support mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/moses-support >> >> >
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