`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: ./configure make ./tests/run-system-tests.pl ## Building from a git clone In addition to the standard `cdec` third party requirements, you will additionally need the following software: - [Autoconf / Automake / Libtool](http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/) - 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](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)]