Re: Any symal experts?

John — Any updates on here? > On Nov 23, 2016, at 12:28 PM, Matt Post wrote: > > I think it will be much less of a headache. The GIZA++ code is notorious for > being unreadable, and the Perl piece of that pipeline only hurts (even though > Philipp's Perl is unusually clear).

Re: Any symal experts?

I think it will be much less of a headache. The GIZA++ code is notorious for being unreadable, and the Perl piece of that pipeline only hurts (even though Philipp's Perl is unusually clear). I think adding atools to your port is the way to go, and that it's written in C++ should facilitate

Re: Any symal experts?

It'll be a headache because it also has no documentation, but to be fair it may be less of a headache / a better long-term solution than trying to move forward with this hackier solution. I'll keep the symal use on the backburner and start putting together an atools port. -John On Wed, Nov 23,

Re: Any symal experts?

John — I suggest trying to ditch those GIZA++ tools entirely. fast_align indeed replaced them with "atools"; how much work would it be to port that? > On Nov 23, 2016, at 12:11 PM, John Hewitt wrote: > > Hey everyone, > > I'm packaging up a Java port Fast Align for

Any symal experts?

Hey everyone, I'm packaging up a Java port Fast Align for Joshua and integrating it into the pipeline. Fast Align does not produce symmetrical alignments -- it relies on a tool that I haven't ported to Java. We package symal (which symmetricizes alignments) with Joshua right now for GIZA++, so