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cdec is a research platform for machine translation and similar structured prediction problems.
System requirements
- A Linux or Mac OS X system
- A C++ compiler implementing at least the C++-11 standard
- Some systems may have compilers that predate C++-11 support.
- You may need to build your own C++ compiler or upgrade your operating system's.
- Boost C++ libraries (version 1.44 or later)
- If you build your own boost, you must install it using
bjam install(to install it into a customized location use--prefix=/path/to/target).
- If you build your own boost, you must install it using
- GNU Flex
- cmake - <font color="red"><b>(NEW)</b></font>
Building the software
Build instructions:
cmake .
make -j4
make test
./tests/run-system-tests.pl
Further information
For more information, refer to the cdec documentation
Citation
If you make use of cdec, please cite:
C. Dyer, A. Lopez, J. Ganitkevitch, J. Weese, F. Ture, P. Blunsom, H. Setiawan, V. Eidelman, and P. Resnik. cdec: A Decoder, Alignment, and Learning Framework for Finite-State and Context-Free Translation Models. In Proceedings of ACL, July, 2010. [bibtex] [pdf]