Moses is a

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, statistical machine translation engine that can be used to train

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s of text translation from a source language to a target language, developed by the

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. Moses then allows new source-language text to be decoded using these models to produce automatic translations in the target language. Training requires a parallel corpus of passages in the two languages, typically manually translated sentence pairs. Moses is released under the LGPL licence and available both as source code and binaries for

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and

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. Its development is primarily supported by the EuroMatrix project, with funding by the

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. Among its features are: * A beam search algorithm that quickly finds the highest probability translation within a number of choices * Phrase-based translation of short text chunks * Handles words with multiple factored representations to enable the integration of linguistic and other information (e.g., surface form,

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and morphology,

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, word class) * Decodes ambiguous forms of a source sentence, represented as a confusion network, to support integration with upstream tools such as speech recognizers * Support for large language models (LMs) such as IRSTLM (an exact LM using memory-mapping) and RandLM (an inexact LM based on

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IRSTLM Homepage

RandLM Homepage
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