NAME

chFormat_alSet.pl - converts an Alignment Set to NAACL or BLINKER format

SYNOPSIS

perl chFormat_alSet.pl [options] required_arguments

Required arguments:

        --i_st, --i_sourceToTarget FILENAME    Input source-to-target links file
        --i_format BLINKER|GIZA|NAACL    Input file(s) format (required if not NAACL)
        --o_st, --o_sourceToTarget FILENAME    Output source-to-target links file
        --o_format BLINKER|GIZA|NAACL    Output file(s) format (required if not NAACL)

Options:

        --i_s, --i_source FILENAME    Input source words file
        --i_t, --i_target FILENAME    Input target words file
        --i_ts, --i_targetToSource FILENAME Input target-to-source links file
        --o_s, --o_source FILENAME    Output source words file
        --o_t, --o_target FILENAME    Output target words file
        --o_ts, --o_targetToSource FILENAME Output target-to-source links file
        --range BEGIN-END    Input Alignment Set range
        --alignMode as-is|null-align|no-null-align    Alignment mode
        --help|?    Prints the help and exits
        --man    Prints the manual and exits

ARGUMENTS

--i_st,--i_sourceToTarget FILENAME

Input source-to-target (i.e. links) file name (or directory, in case of BLINKER format)

--i_format BLINKER|GIZA|NAACL

Input Alignment Set format (required if different from default, NAACL).

--o_st,--o_sourceToTarget FILENAME

Output (new format) source-to-target (i.e. links) file name (or directory, in case of BLINKER format)

--o_format BLINKER|GIZA|NAACL

Output (new) Alignment Set format (required if different from default, NAACL)

OPTIONS

--i_s,--i_source FILENAME

Input source (words) file name. Not applicable in GIZA Format.

--i_t,--i_target FILENAME

Input target (words) file name. Not applicable in GIZA Format.

--i_ts,--i_targetToSource FILENAME

Input target-to-source (i.e. links) file name (or directory, in case of BLINKER format)

--range BEGIN-END

Range of the input source-to-target file (BEGIN and END are the sentence pair numbers)

--o_s,--o_source FILENAME

Output (new format) source (words) file name. Not applicable in GIZA Format.

--o_t,--o_target FILENAME

Output (new format) target (words) file name. Not applicable in GIZA Format.

--o_ts,--o_targetToSource FILENAME

Output (new format) target-to-source (i.e. links) file name (or directory, in case of BLINKER format)

--alignMode as-is|null-align|no-null-align

Take alignment "as-is" or force NULL alignment or NO-NULL alignment (see AlignmentSet.pm documentation).

--help, --?

Prints a help message and exits.

--man

Prints a help message and exits.

DESCRIPTION

Converts an Alignment Set to the specified format. It creates, at the specified location, the new format file(s), but cannot delete the old format files. The command-line utility has been made for convenience. For full details, see the documentation of the Lingua::AlignmentSet.pm module.

EXAMPLES

Converting NAACL files to BLINKER format:

perl chFormat_alSet.pl --i_st test-giza.eng2spa.naacl --i_s test.eng.naacl --i_t test.spa.naacl --o_st test-giza.eng2spa.blinker --o_format BLINKER --o_s test.eng --o_t test.spa

Converting a GIZA file to NAACL format:

perl chFormat_alSet.pl --i_st test-giza.eng2spa.giza --i_format GIZA --o_st test-giza.eng2spa.naacl --o_s test.eng.naacl --o_t test.spa.naacl

AUTHOR

Patrik Lambert <lambert@talp.upc.es>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright 2004 by Patrick Lambert

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License (version 2 or any later version).