Nile
A hierarchical syntax-based word alignment package for statistical machine translation
Nile is a supervised, discriminative word alignment package that uses nonlocal, overlapping features. For details, see:
- "Feature-Rich Language-Independent Syntax-Based Alignment for Statistical Machine Translation"
(J. Riesa, A. Irvine, and D. Marcu), Proceedings of EMNLP 2011. - "Hierarchical Search for Word Alignment" (J. Riesa and D. Marcu), Proceedings of ACL 2010.
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Comments or questions are welcome; you can send any feedback to Jason Riesa.
We have used Nile successfully with Chinese-English, Arabic-English, and German-English so far. Have you tried Nile with other language pairs? Tell us how it went!
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