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

["Lewis John McGibbney (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Lewis John McGibbney commented on TIKA-1343:
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OK [~chrismattmann] I need this for [iPReS|https://github.com/lewismc/ipres] now so I am going to start working on the abstract NetworkTranslator which is implemented. It saves us having to get too involved with Joshua build system, etc and augmenting it so that they publish to Maven central. I submitted a [trivial patch earlier today|https://github.com/joshua-decoder/joshua/issues/188] then just realized that having the NetworkTranslator over in Tika makes MUCH more sense.

> Create a Tika Translator implementation that uses JoshuaDecoder
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>
>                 Key: TIKA-1343
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1343
>             Project: Tika
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: translation
>            Reporter: Chris A. Mattmann
>            Assignee: Chris A. Mattmann
>             Fix For: 1.8
>
>
> 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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