/cdec

Decoder, aligner, and model optimizer for statistical machine translation and other structured prediction models based on (mostly) context-free formalisms

Primary LanguageC++Apache License 2.0Apache-2.0

cdec is a research platform for machine translation and similar structured prediction problems.

Building from a downloaded archive

Instructions:

./configure
make
./tests/run-system-tests.pl

You will need the following software:

  • Boost C++ libraries (version 1.44 or later)
    • If you build your own boost, you must install it using bjam install.
    • Older versions of Boost may work, but problems have been reported with command line option parsing on some platforms with older versions.
  • GNU Flex

Building from a git clone

In addition to the standard cdec third party requirements, you will additionally need the following software:

Instructions:

autoreconf -ifv
./configure
make
./tests/run-system-tests.pl

Further information

For more information, refer to the cdec documentation