diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'README.md')
| -rw-r--r-- | README.md | 23 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 7 deletions
@@ -1,5 +1,16 @@ `cdec` is a research platform for machine translation and similar structured prediction problems. +## System requirements + +- A Linux or Mac OS X system +- A C++ compiler implementing the [C++-11 standard](http://www.stroustrup.com/C++11FAQ.html) <font color="red"><b>(NEW)</b></font> + - Unfortunately, many systems have compilers that predate C++-11 support. + - You may need to build your own C++ compiler or upgrade your operating system. +- [Boost C++ libraries (version 1.44 or later)](http://www.boost.org/) + - 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](http://flex.sourceforge.net/) + ## Building from a downloaded archive Instructions: @@ -8,13 +19,6 @@ Instructions: make ./tests/run-system-tests.pl -You will need the following software: - -- [Boost C++ libraries (version 1.44 or later)](http://www.boost.org/) - - 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](http://flex.sourceforge.net/) - ## Building from a git clone In addition to the standard `cdec` third party requirements, you will additionally need the following software: @@ -33,3 +37,8 @@ Instructions: [For more information, refer to the `cdec` documentation](http://www.cdec-decoder.org) +## Citation + +If you make use of cdec, please cite: + +C. Dyer, A. Lopez, J. Ganitkevitch, J. Weese, F. Ture, P. Blunsom, H. Setiawan, V. Eidelman, and P. Resnik. cdec: A Decoder, Alignment, and Learning Framework for Finite-State and Context-Free Translation Models. In *Proceedings of ACL*, July, 2010. [[bibtex](http://www.cdec-decoder.org/cdec.bibtex.txt)] [[pdf](http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P/P10/P10-4002.pdf)] |