Wednesday, 15 August 2012

Champollion Tool Kit - Text Sentence Aligner

Link: http://champollion.sourceforge.net/
Intro: Built around LDC's champollion sentence aligner kernel, Champollion Tool Kit (CTK) aims to providing ready-to-use parallel text sentence alignment tools for as many language pairs as possible.
Champollion depends heavily on lexical information, but uses sentence length information as well. A translation lexicon is required. Past experiments indicate that champollion's performance improves as the translation lexicon become larger.

Monday, 30 July 2012

PML Tree Query

Intro: PML-TQ is an powerful open-source search tool for all kinds of linguistaically annotated treebanks with several client interfaces and two search backends (one based on a SQL database and one based on Perl and the TrEd toolkit). The tool works natively with treebanks encoded in the PML data format (conversion scripts are available for many established treebank formats).

Friday, 27 July 2012

PET - Post-Editing Translation Tool

Link: http://pers-www.wlv.ac.uk/~in1676/pet/
Intro: PET is a stand-alone, open-source (under LGPL) tool written in Java that should help you post-edit and assess machine or human translations while gathering detailed statistics about post-editing time amongst other effort indicators.

Tuesday, 24 July 2012

Subtitle Translation

Subtitle corpus: http://opus.lingfil.uu.se/ (more)

*** Google Translation API is no longer freely available. Can we use state-of-the-art SMT techniques to build a subtitle SMT system by ourself? What are challenges???

Monday, 23 July 2012

XML-RPC

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML-RPC
Intro: XML-RPC is a remote procedure call (RPC) protocol which uses XML to encode its calls and HTTP as a transport mechanism.[1] "XML-RPC" also refers generically to the use of XML for remote procedure call, independently of the specific protocol. This article is about the protocol named "XML-RPC".

C++ Tool: (tested) http://xmlrpcpp.sourceforge.net/

OpenStreetMap

Link: http://www.openstreetmap.org/
Intro: OpenStreetMap is a free worldwide map, created by people like you.
Data: http://planet.openstreetmap.org/