gracaninja / mtmonkey

Distributed infrastructure for Machine Translation web services (using Moses, Python, JSON-RPC/web interface)

MTMonkey – an infrastructure for Machine Translation web services

Authors: Aleš Tamchyna, Ondřej Dušek, Rudolf Rosa, Pavel Pecina

Copyright © 2013 Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, Charles University in Prague.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.

When using this software in your scientific work, please cite the following paper: Aleš Tamchyna, Ondřej Dušek, Rudolf Rosa, and Pavel Pecina: "MTMonkey: A scalable infrastructure for a Machine Translation web service". In Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics 100, 2013 (in print).

Contents of this package

• appserver – source codes of the application server
• config-example – example configuration files
• install – installation scripts and instructions
• scripts – application server, worker and Moses servers startup scripts
• web-client – a simple PHP-based web client for the service
• worker – source codes of the worker, incl. text pre- and post-processing tools.

Subdirectories not mentioned in this list are used for testing purposes.

Usage

For installation notes for both workers and the application server, see install/README.md.

For a more detailed description of the overall architecture of this system, see the above mentioned paper (a link will be added as soon as the paper will be published).