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error analysis and system comparison. It allows to search for those translations (of a
given testbed) that match some criteria related to their quality (as assessed by the
automatic scores) and the intermediate analysis results (output of the analyzers). This
tool has been specially designed to aid developers to alleviate the burden of manually
inspecting the quality of their translations.
Finally, in order to ease the use of the evaluation toolkit and provide visual information related to translation quality, we developed three different on-line interfaces. The
AsiyaWSis a RESTful web service to access a remote instance of the Asiya Toolkit
running on a GRID cluster. In the line of today’s cloud computing services, this web
service is intended to facilitate the remote usage of the application without the need for
downloading and locally installing all the modules. The on-line interfaces (Gonzàlez
et al., 2012) provide graphical interaction. They are intended to allow users to familiarize with the Asiya functionalities and to analyze real testbeds in a graphical and
interactive environment. They favour a rapid evaluation and examination of testbeds
using just a browser and a quick inspection of the results obtained, including fast
search, graphs, annotations and visualization of parse trees.
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Installation
The following subsections provide the basic set of instructions for building the Asiya
Toolkit (Section 2.1), the external software components required for metric computation (Section 2.2) and the tSearch tool (Section 2.3).
2.1
Building Asiya
Check out the latest development version from the subversion repository:
• svn co http://svn-rdlab.lsi.upc.edu/subversion/asiya/public asiya
To configure this module cd into to the newly created ‘./asiya’ directory and type the
following:
perl Makefile.PL
Alternatively, if you plan to install this tool somewhere other than your system’s perl
library directory, you can type something like this:
perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=/home/me/perl
This will check whether all the required modules are installed or not. Prerequisites
are:
• XML management:
– XML::Twig 3.343
– XML::DOM 1.44 (requires, XML::Parser::PerlSAX, available inside libxmlperl-0.08)
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http://www.xmltwig.com/xmltwig/
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