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How To Compile, Install and Run GIZA++

November 18th, 2008 x=vv= 8 comments

One component of my QA search engine (part of my research work) actually needs to employ information on the semantic relatedness between words, and recently I plan to use GIZA++ to fulfill part of this job. GIZA++ is actually a statical machine translation toolkit for IBM Models 1-5 training and HMM word alignment.

This project is NOT documented very well, and I do have some difficulties at the very beginning, for both compilation and execution. After several hours trial-and-error, and with the help of Google, I made it finally, and I’m here to wrap this up. Probably it would be helpful for you.

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Computer Science Journal Rankings

October 24th, 2008 x=vv= No comments