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cdec: A Decoder, Alignment, and Learning Framework for Finite-State and Context-Free Translation Models

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cdec: A Decoder, Alignment, and Learning Framework for Finite-State and Context-Free Translation Models
We present cdec, an open source framework for decoding, aligning with, and training a number of statistical machine translation models, including word-based models, phrase-based models, and models based on synchronous context-free grammars. Using a single unified internal representation for translation forests, the decoder strictly separates model-specific translation logic from general rescoring, pruning, and inference algorithms. From this unified representation, the decoder can extract not only the 1- or k-best translations, but also alignments to a reference, or the quantities necessary to drive discriminative training using gradient-based or gradient-free optimization techniques. Its efficient C++ implementation means that memory use and runtime performance are significantly better than comparable decoders.
Chris Dyer, Adam Lopez, Juri Ganitkevitch, Jonatha
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Type Journal
Year 2010
Where ACL
Authors Chris Dyer, Adam Lopez, Juri Ganitkevitch, Jonathan Weese, Ferhan Türe, Phil Blunsom, Hendra Setiawan, Vladimir Eidelman, Philip Resnik
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