[jira] [Created] (TIKA-1343) Create a Tika Translator implementation that uses JoshuaDecoder

["Chris A. Mattmann (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Chris A. Mattmann created TIKA-1343:
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             Summary: Create a Tika Translator implementation that uses JoshuaDecoder
                 Key: TIKA-1343
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1343
             Project: Tika
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: general
            Reporter: Chris A. Mattmann
            Assignee: Chris A. Mattmann
             Fix For: 1.6


The Joshua Decoder toolkit is a BSD licensed Java-based statistical machine translation system hosted at Github:

http://joshua-decoder.org/

Joshua takes in corpuses and trains models that can then be used to do language translation. Currently there is support for e.g., Spanisn->English, Indian dialects->English, Chinese->English, and a few others. 

https://github.com/joshua-decoder/joshua/

It would be nice to build a Tika Translator on top of Joshua. There are of course several issues with this:

* the models are huge - so we'll need a separate package or Maven module, maybe tika-translate-joshua or something to release the models and we'll need to build the models. I just went through the process of building the Spanish->English one, and it still needs to be rebuilt b/c I did it wrong, but it took over a day
* there is a configuration for Joshua, and so we need some way of passing that config into the Translator. Not sure of the best way to do this.
* Joshua isn't in the Central repository. I've started a discussion on the Joshua lists about this: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/joshua_support/9Y04miboUj0

Anyhoo, I've got a working patch right now with hard code stuff, and a manual install into my Maven repo for brave souls out there that want to try it.



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