Maximum Entropy Models for machine translation

Closed weights University of Southern California,RWTH Aachen University July 2002

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Origin

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Organisation
University of Southern California,RWTH Aachen University
Organisation type
Academia,Academia
Country
United States of America, Germany
Published
6 July 2002
Authors
Franz Josef Och and Hermann Ney

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Domain
Language
Task
Translation

Size

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Training data
58,073 tokens

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Citations
1,413

Sources

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Reference
Discriminative Training and Maximum Entropy Models for Statistical Machine Translation
Last updated
28 November 2025

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About this model

Maximum Entropy Models for machine translation was published by University of Southern California,RWTH Aachen University, in the country recorded as United States of America, during July 2002. The publishing organisation is categorised as academia,Academia.

It works in the domain of Language, and is recorded as performing the task of translation.

Its weights were never published, so it can only be reached through its provider. No graphics card changes that.

How it was trained

Training consumed a corpus of around 58,073 tokens of text.

Answers

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Maximum Entropy Models for machine translation— how many parameters does it have?

No parameter count has been published for it, which is why no memory or speed figure appears on this page.

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Maximum Entropy Models for machine translation— who created it?

It was published by University of Southern California,RWTH Aachen University, based in United States of America, an organisation categorised as academia,Academia.

03

Maximum Entropy Models for machine translation— when was it released?

It was published in July 2002. Capability per parameter has improved considerably since, so a newer model of the same size is often the better use of the same hardware.

04

Maximum Entropy Models for machine translation— what is it used for?

It works in the domain of Language, and is recorded as handling the task of translation. Models frequently carry more than one of each, and the tags describe purpose rather than capability limits.

05

Maximum Entropy Models for machine translation— what GPU do I need to run it?

None. This is a closed model — its weights were never published, so it cannot be downloaded or run on your own hardware at any price. It is reachable only through its provider.

06

Maximum Entropy Models for machine translation— is it open source?

The licensing was never recorded in our source data. We treat unstated licensing as closed, because an unrecorded licence is not one to rely on.

Source

Original publication

Record last updated 28 November 2025

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