or even see our own ACL paper from this year, which applies MC
techniques correctly

http://aclweb.org/anthology-new/P/P09/P09-1088.pdf

(a problem with the paper you mentioned is that they only ran the
sampler for 100 rounds --that is barely enough to move from the
initial distribution)

Miles

2009/10/28 Adam Lopez <alo...@inf.ed.ac.uk>:
> See this paper (which I believe is current state of the art for direct
> alignment of phrases) and references therein:
> http://aclweb.org/anthology-new/D/D08/D08-1033.pdf
>
> This strand of research goes back at least as far as this paper:
> http://aclweb.org/anthology-new/W/W02/W02-1018.pdf
>
> On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 10:51 PM, Catalin Braescu <cata...@braescu.com> wrote:
>> Then I wonder how can aligning be done automatically for phrases? And
>> what's the accuracy of such process?
>>
>>
>> Catalin Braescu
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 12:36 AM, Miles Osborne <mi...@inf.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
>>> well, alignment is a task that is really done en mass and not
>>> sentence-by-sentence.  apart from say teaching, there isn't really a
>>> need for a GUI to do it.
>>>
>>> (convince me that you are ready to use this to align 8 million
>>> sentence pairs and i'd be impressed)
>>>
>>> Miles
>>>
>>> 2009/10/27 Catalin Braescu <cata...@braescu.com>:
>>>>  Big thanks for the links!
>>>>
>>>> But I have to say I cannot believe my eyes... most of these programs
>>>> are jar files launcged with parameters from the command line... and
>>>> the way they work could be a textbook for user unfriendliness :-(
>>>>
>>>> How can people stand such primitive and bizarre apps? I am not bashing
>>>> their authors, I am only surprised there weren't any authors of better
>>>> programs...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Catalin Braescu
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 9:57 PM, Adam Lopez <alo...@inf.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
>>>>> There are several of these around.  Note that I have not used any of them.
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.cs.utah.edu/~hal/HandAlign/
>>>>> http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~nmadnani/alignment/forclip.htm
>>>>> http://www.d.umn.edu/~tpederse/parallel.html
>>>>> http://www.let.rug.nl/~tiedeman/Uplug/
>>>>>
>>>>> Ulrich Germann also demonstrated such an editor at last year's ACL,
>>>>> although it does not seem to be online; perhaps email him.
>>>>>
>>>>> Adam
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Catalin Braescu <cata...@braescu.com> 
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> Ok, so what I'm looking for is a non-CLI alignment editor. Any ideas?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Catalin Braescu
>>>>>> Omlulu.com
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 1:41 PM, Catalin Braescu <cata...@braescu.com> 
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>> I am asking in advance for your forgiveness if my question is trivial
>>>>>>> (or, rather, the answer).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I am looking for a non-CLI tool that a not-very-technical person can
>>>>>>> use to align 2 documents in different languages.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> When I'm saying "non--CLI" I mean anything that has a window and a
>>>>>>> "visual" way of handling things: anything between a dual pane Notepad,
>>>>>>> a php-backed web form, a Java Applet, whatever. as in, not a command
>>>>>>> line "thing" - our newly hired PC operators won't be able to handle
>>>>>>> it.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Any suggestions?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Catalin Braescu
>>>>>>> Omlulu.com
>>>>>>>
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