Joshua
open source statistical hierarchical phrase-based machine translation system
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joshua.decoder.ff.tm.GrammarFactory Interface Reference
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Grammar getGrammarForSentence (Sentence sentence)

Detailed Description

Factory capable of getting a grammar for use in translating a sentence.

Developers interested in implementing a new type of grammar must:

  1. Implement GrammarFactory
  2. Implement Grammar
  3. Implement TrieGrammar
  4. Implement RuleCollection

Also, attention should be directed to the Rule class.

Author:
Lane Schwartz
Version:
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Grammar joshua.decoder.ff.tm.GrammarFactory.getGrammarForSentence ( Sentence  sentence)

Returns a grammar which is adapted to the specified sentence. Depending on the implementation this grammar may be generated online, partially loaded from disk, remain unchanged etc.

Parameters:
sentenceA sentence to be translated
Returns:
A grammar that represents a set of translation rules, relevant for translating (at least) the given sentence.

Implemented in joshua.decoder.ff.tm.BatchGrammar.