ACL 2007 SECOND WORKSHOP
ON STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION

Shared Task: Baseline System

June 23, in conjunction with ACL 2007 in Prague, Czech Republic

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Using the open source Moses it is possible to build a baseline system that is on par with the best submission from last year's workshop. What follows below are step-for-step instructions. This may look like a long list at first glance, but it should make the process of building machine translation system and all its components, and its tuning, testing, and evaluation transparent.

Note: The build and install instructions for Moses are out-of-date. Please refer to the Moses website for an updated version.

Install Moses Support Libraries

Install Moses

Install Moses Scripts

Install Additional Scripts

Prepare Data

Build Language Model

Train Model

Tuning (i.e., Optimize System Component Weights, a.k.a. Minimum Error Rate Training)

Run System on Development Test Set

Evaluation

supported by the EuroMatrix project, P6-IST-5-034291-STP
funded by the European Commission under Framework Programme 6