Nice. I'll build this into JOSHUA-252. We can ship and build with this :) On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 2:13 AM, < dev-digest-h...@joshua.incubator.apache.org> wrote:
> > > From: kellen sunderland <kellen.sunderl...@gmail.com> > To: dev@joshua.incubator.apache.org > Cc: > Date: Thu, 19 May 2016 10:08:08 +0200 > Subject: GIZA++ alternative > My colleagues reminded me that we can use the FastAlign package ( > https://github.com/clab/fast_align ) as an alternative to GIZA++. > FastAlign implements a modification of the IBM Model 2 algorithm to produce > word alignments (paper here: http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/N13-1073.pdf > ). It's Apache 2 licensed and I believe it should perform the same basic > functions as GIZA++ (correct me if I'm wrong Matt). I've been using it on > my project to generate alignments and haven't had any issues. > > -Kellen > >
