How to setup GIZA++ on Windows?

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I’ll illustrate in that post how to build GIZA++ under Windows to a pure Windows user.

What is GIZA++?

GIZA++ is a statistical machine translation toolkit one of its main features of the package is text alignment.

Note: The version of GIZA++ I’m going to talk about is uploaded on Mar 20, 2009.

Installation Steps...

1. Download GIZA++
2. Extract the files any location you want, using WinRAR for example.
3. Edit \giza-pp\GIZA++-v2\Makefile, Search for DBINARY_SEARCH_FOR_TTABLE and delete it - more info.
4. Download Cygwin and choose "gcc-g++", "binutils" and "make" at the Select Packages.
5. Open Cygwin Bash Shell, navigate to the place you’ve extracted the GIZA++ files, and then start building the project using make command.
6. Outfiles...
   \giza-pp\GIZA++-v2\GIZA++.exe
   \giza-pp\GIZA++-v2\snt2plain.out
   \giza-pp\GIZA++-v2\plain2snt.out
   \giza-pp\GIZA++-v2\snt2cooc.out
   
   \giza-pp\mkcls-v2\mkcls.exe

This is my first step to start working with GIZA++. Wait for coming posts about how to use GIZA++, In-Sha'a-ALLAH

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