| Title |
Cairo: An Alignment Visualization Tool |
| Authors |
Smith Noah A. (University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA, nasmith@cs.umd.edu)
Jahr Michael E. (Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA, mjahr@stanford.edu) |
| Keywords |
Java, Statistical Machine Translation, Visualization, Word Alignment |
| Session |
Session WP3 - Multilingual Corpora |
| Full Paper |
58.ps, 58.pdf |
| Abstract |
While developing a suite of tools for statistical machine translation research, we recognized the need for a visualization tool that would allow researchers to examine and evaluate specific word correspondences generated by a translation system. We developed Cairo to fill this need. Cairo is a free, open-source, portable, user-friendly, GUI-driven program written in Java that provides a visual representation of word correspondences between bilingual pairs of sentences, as well as relevant translation model parameters. This program can be easily adapted for visualization of correspondences in bi-texts based on probability distributions. |
