Ferrández-Tordera, Jorge, Ortiz-Rojas, Sergio and Toral, Antonio ORCID: 0000-0003-2357-2960 (2016) CloudLM: a cloud-based language model for machine translation. Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics (105). pp. 51-61. ISSN 1804-0462
Abstract
Language models (LMs) are an essential element in statistical approaches to natural language processing for tasks such as speech recognition and machine translation (MT). The advent of big data leads to the availability of massive amounts of data to build LMs, and in fact,
for the most prominent languages, using current techniques and hardware, it is not feasible to
train LMs with all the data available nowadays. At the same time, it has been shown that the
more data is used for a LM the better the performance, e.g. for MT, without any indication yet
of reaching a plateau. This paper presents CloudLM, an open-source cloud-based LM intended
for MT, which allows to query distributed LMs. CloudLM relies on Apache Solr and provides
the functionality of state-of-the-art language modelling (it builds upon KenLM), while allowing to query massive LMs (as the use of local memory is drastically reduced), at the expense of
slower decoding speed.
Metadata
Item Type: | Article (Published) |
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Refereed: | Yes |
Subjects: | Computer Science > Machine translating |
DCU Faculties and Centres: | DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Engineering and Computing > School of Computing Research Institutes and Centres > ADAPT Research Institutes and Centres > Centre for Next Generation Localisation (CNGL) |
Publisher: | De Gruyter Open |
Official URL: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/pralin-2016-0002 |
Copyright Information: | © 2016 PBML |
Use License: | This item is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. View License |
Funders: | European Union Seventh Framework Programme FP7/2007-2013 under grant agreement PIAPGA-2012-324414 (Abu-MaTran). |
ID Code: | 23306 |
Deposited On: | 16 May 2019 11:30 by Thomas Murtagh . Last Modified 16 May 2019 11:30 |
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