@inproceedings{junczys-dowmunt2010symgiza, author = {Junczys-Dowmunt, Marcin and SzaƂ, Arkadiusz}, title = {SyMGiza++: A tool for parallel computation of symmetrized word alignment models}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2010 International Multiconference on Computer Science and Information Technology (IMCSIT)}, year = {2010}, month = {October}, abstract = {SyMGiza++ - a tool that computes symmetric word alignment models with the capability to take advantage of multi-processor systems - is presented. A series of fairly simple modifications to the original IBM/Giza++ word alignment models allows to update the symmetrized models between each iteration of the original training algorithms. We achieve a relative alignment quality improvement of more than 17% compared to Giza++ and MGiza++ on the standard Canadian Hansards task, while maintaining the speed improvements provided by MGiza++'s capability of parallel computations.}, url = {http://approjects.co.za/?big=en-us/research/publication/symgiza-tool-parallel-computation-symmetrized-word-alignment-models/}, pages = {397-401}, isbn = {978-1-4244-6432-6}, edition = {Proceedings of the 2010 International Multiconference on Computer Science and Information Technology (IMCSIT)}, }