Does anyone know if it is possible to turn off reordering (crossing links) in GIZA++?

Say, I know my sentence pairs are all monotone, i.e., have the same order. If GIZA++ considers crossing links it will potentially harm the alignment results; so I'd like to turn that off.

If that would be tricky, is there another unsupervised aligner where you can easily do that?

In my case, an edit-distance alignment would make sense too, but GIZA++ might still be better because it uses trained weights, instead of the one-size-fits-all costs for every change.

asked Mar 29 '11 at 14:51

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Wow, I can't believe this is the first question under a "machine-translation" tag.

(Mar 29 '11 at 14:52) Frank

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For monotone alignments you could try using the m2m-aligner instead of GIZA++

answered Jul 22 '11 at 23:40

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