Thanks for the update Kensie. I’m looking forward to see it.
The one thing I’m curious about is where does Jeff plan to install moses?
I mean, you ideally need a decent server somewhere. Just to give you a rough idea, here are two quotes from the Moses website:
As an indication, a Europarl trained model, using 2000 sentences for tuning, takes 1-2 days to tune using 15 CPUs. 10-15 iterations are typical.
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The single-most important thing you need to run Moses fast is MEMORY. Lots of MEMORY. (For example, the Edinburgh group have servers with 144GB of RAM).
So, of course, I or Jeff could try to install a little Moses instance on our small 2Gb Laptop to train toy examples during the night. It is possible. …but well …it’ll hog our laptop day and night, and the result will be a toy translation system of very poor quality.
By the way, I’d also like to point out that you’d need such a server for every language pair.
This is related to:
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…I think I could install moses on mine …training a decent one is a whole other matter.