Tuesday, 11 September 2012

NiuTrans: A Statistical Machine Translation System

Intro: NiuTrans is an open-source statistical machine translation system developed by the Natural Language Processing Group at Northeastern University, China. The NiuTrans system is fully developed in C++ language. So it runs fast and uses less memory. Currently it has already supported phrase-based, hierarchical phrase-based and syntax-based (string-to-tree, tree-to-string and tree-to-tree) models for research-oriented studies.

Wednesday, 5 September 2012

Docent - Document-level SMT

Intro: Docent is a decoder for phrase-based Statistical Machine Translation (SMT). Unlike most existing SMT decoders, it treats complete documents, rather than single sentences, as translation units and permits the inclusion of features with cross-sentence dependencies to facilitate the development of discourse-level models for SMT. Docent implements the local search decoding approach described by Hardmeier et al. (EMNLP 2012).
Paperhttps://aclweb.org/anthology-new/D/D12/D12-1108.pdf

Wednesday, 29 August 2012

Fangorn: a system for querying very large treebanks

Linkhttp://nltk.ldc.upenn.edu:9090/index
Intro: Fangorn is an open source tool for querying very large treebanks, built on top of Apache Lucene.  Fangorn implements the LPath linguistic path language, which has an XPath-like syntax along with linguistically motivated extensions.  Result trees are annotated with the query in order to show how the query matched the tree, and these annotations can themselves be modified and submitted as further queries.

Tuesday, 28 August 2012

Intel® Threading Building Blocks (Intel® TBB)

Intro: Intel® Threading Building Blocks (Intel® TBB) offers a rich and complete approach to expressing parallelism in a C++ program. It is a library that helps you take advantage of multi-core processor performance without having to be a threading expert. Intel TBB is not just a threads-replacement library. It represents a higher-level, task-based parallelism that abstracts platform details and threading mechanisms for scalability and performance. 

Monday, 27 August 2012

ACCURAT Toolkit

Intro: The ACCURAT project (http://www.accurat-project.eu/) is pleased to announce the release of ACCURAT Toolkit - a collection of tools for comparable corpora collection and multi-level alignment and information extraction from comparable corpora. By using the ACCURAT Toolkit, users may obtain:
- Comparable corpora from the Web (current news corpora, filtered Wikipedia corpora, and narrow domain focussed corpora);
- Comparable document alignments;
- Semi-parallel sentence/phrase mapping from comparable corpora (for SMT training purposes or other tasks);
- Translated terminology extracted and mapped from bilingual comparable corpora;
- Translated named entities extracted and mapped from bilingual comparable corpora.

Thursday, 23 August 2012

OpenFst Library

Linkhttp://www.openfst.org/twiki/bin/view/FST/WebHome
IntroOpenFst is a library for constructing, combining, optimizing, and searching weighted finite-state transducers (FSTs). Weighted finite-state transducers are automata where each transition has an input label, an output label, and a weight. The more familiar finite-state acceptor is represented as a transducer with each transition's input and output label equal. Finite-state acceptors are used to represent sets of strings (specifically, regular or rational sets); finite-state transducers are used to represent binary relations between pairs of strings (specifically, rational transductions). The weights can be used to represent the cost of taking a particular transition.