cdec is a research platform for machine translation and similar structured prediction problems.

Building from a downloaded archive

Instructions:

./configure
make
./tests/run-system-tests.pl

You will need the following software:

• Boost C++ libraries (version 1.44 or later)
  • If you build your own boost, you must install it using bjam install.
  • Older versions of Boost may work, but problems have been reported with command line option parsing on some platforms with older versions.
• GNU Flex

Building from a git clone

In addition to the standard cdec third party requirements, you will additionally need the following software:

• Autoconf / Automake / Libtool
  • Older versions of GNU autotools may not work properly.

Instructions:

autoreconf -ifv
./configure
make
./tests/run-system-tests.pl

Further information

For more information, refer to the cdec documentation