N-code: an open-source Bilingual N-gram SMT Toolkit
Résumé
This paper describes Ncode, an open source statistical machine translation (SMT) toolkit for translation models estimated as $n$-gram language models of bilingual units (emphtuples). This toolkit includes tools for extracting tuples, estimating models and performing translation. It can be easily coupled to several other open source toolkits to yield a complete SMT pipeline. In this article, we review the main features of the toolkit and explain how to build a translation engine with Ncode. We also report a short comparison with the widely known Moses system. Results show that Ncode outperforms Moses in terms of memory requirements and translation speed. Ncode also achieves slightly higher accuracy results.