tud-fop / vanda-studio

An integrated development environment that allows for rapid incremental design of small-scale machine-translation experiments.

Vanda Studio

Vanda Studio is an integrated development environment that allows for rapid incremental design of small-scale machine-translation experiments.

Installation from git

1. check out the git archive:

• git clone <repo> <target_folder>

2. go to <target_folder>/share/packages:

• cd <target_folder>/share/packages

3. build the package util:

• ./vandapkg.bash makepkg implementations/util

4. install the package util:

• ./vandapkg.bash install util.tar.gz interfaces/util.xml

Installation of packages

1. build the package (usually from share/packages/implementations)

• ./vandapkg.bash makepkg <path_to_package>

2. install tool interface (usually from share/packages/interfaces)

• ./vandapkg.bash install <path_to_interface_xml>

3. install tool implementation

• ./vandapkg.bash install <path_to_package_tar.gz>

We will someday provide a repository of stable package versions to simplify the installation process.

Tool interfaces and tool implementations

1. tool interfaces provide the tool boxes in the gui of Vanda Studio.
2. tool implementations provide the implementation of tool interfaces.
3. a tool box can only be executed of a corresponding tool implementation is installed.

Tool interface	Tool implementation	Description	build-dep	run-dep	libraries
util	util	core functionality		pv
berkeley	berkeley	Berkeley parser	javac	java
egret	egret	Egret parser	unzip, g++
emDictionary	emDictionary	dictionary training using the EM algorithm	ghc
ghkm	ghkm	GHKM rule extraction		java
giza	giza	alignment training	make, g++, git	perl	boost
	mgiza	alignment training (multicore)	make, g++, git, svn, cmake	perl, python	boost
irstlm	irstlm	tool for n-grams	make, g++
jobst-ibm1	jobst-ibm1	IBM model 1	make, g++		boost
kenlm	kenlm	tools for n-grams	g++		boost
leonhardt	leonhardt	HMM with state splitting	javac, jar	java
morgenroth	morgenroth	BLEU score	ghc
remEmptyLines	remEmptyLines	remove empty lines from parallel corpora	ghc
rparse	rparse	employ the rparse-Parser for LCFRS	git, ant, javac	sed, java
stanford-postagger	stanford postagger	Stanford Log-linear Part-Of-Speech Tagger	unzip	java
tiburon	tiburon	tools for tree automata	tiburon.jar	java
vanda	vanda	tools from Vanda Haskell	git, runhaskell, ghc

Create packages

You can create your own packages with three steps:

1. create a folder for the package (folder name is the package name)
2. create two files (use another package as a template)
   • install.bash: installation script
   • func.bash: is called in the execution of tool boxes
3. create a tool interface xml (use another tool interface as a template)
   • the tool ids, port names, and port types in the tool interface xml and the install.bash have to match (otherwise, Vanda Haskell will throw NullPointerException upon loading the tool)

Compilation and execution

Vanda Studio uses the build tool ant. The following commands can be executed in the git root directory:

Command	Description
ant compile	compiles the project
ant run	runs the project

Fonts

You may set a custom font for the user interface by putting an entry like <entry key="font">Droid Sans Mono</entry> in the config file (usually at ~/.vanda/studio.conf).

Acknowledgements

• This product includes software developed by the Apache Software Foundation (http://www.apache.org/).
• This product includes software developed by the Indiana University Extreme! Lab (http://www.extreme.indiana.edu/).