Porting SIMR to New Language Pairs
I. Dan Melamed · Scholarly Commons (University of Pennsylvania) · 1996
There are three steps in porting SIMR to new language pairs. The first step is to choose an appropriate matching predicate, and collect any linguistic resources required by that matching predicate. The second step is to implement bitext space axis generation routines that are consistent with the matching predicate. The last step is to re-optimize SIMR's numerical parameters. This document explains each step in detail. It assumes that you have read and understood the paper [1]. It also assumes that you have SIMR and the porting tools properly installed. 1 Matching Predicate SIMR's matching predicates can be based on any combination of predicate filters and oracle filters [3]. Your choice of matching predicate will depend on the languages that you are dealing with and the linguistic resources that you have at your disposal. If you are dealing with languages that share many cognates, or even phonetic cognates, then your matching predicate should test for cognateness. Cognate predicates u...