HMM Word Alignment
No estimate
No hardware requirements for this model
The weights for this model have not been published, so it cannot be downloaded or run on your own hardware at any size. It is reachable only through its provider, and no graphics card changes that.
On record
Full specification
Everything on record for this model. Most of it describes how it was trained rather than how it runs — useful context for judging how much work went into it, and how it compares with models built at a different scale.
Origin
Who built this model, where, and when it was published.
- Organisation
- University of Erlangen - Nuremburg
- Organisation type
- Academia
- Country
- Germany
- Published
- 5 August 1996
- Authors
- Stephan Vogel, Hermann Ney, Christoph Tillmann
What it does
The problem areas the model was built for. A model can carry several of each.
- Domain
- Language
- Task
- Translation
- Approach
- Supervised
Size
How large the model is and how much data it was trained on. Parameters are the figure that decides whether it fits on a given graphics card.
- Training data
- 150,279 tokens
[WORDS] Table 1. I take the sum of all words. Maybe it would be better to use only the sum of English or German words?
How it is classified
Labels the source dataset applies when tracking notable models, and how confident it is in the entry.
- Citations
- 1,099
Sources
Where this record came from and when it was last checked.
- Reference
- HMM-Based Word Alignment in Statistical Translation
- Last updated
- 28 November 2025
What the numbers mean
About this model
HMM Word Alignment was published by University of Erlangen - Nuremburg, in the country recorded as Germany, during August 1996. It comes out of an organisation categorised as 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.
Training and provenance
It was trained on a corpus of about 150,279 tokens of text.
Answers
HMM Word Alignment — common questions
HMM Word Alignment— 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.
HMM Word Alignment— who created it?
It was published by University of Erlangen - Nuremburg, based in Germany, an organisation categorised as academia.
HMM Word Alignment— when was it released?
It was published in August 1996. Capability per parameter has improved considerably since, so a newer model of the same size is often the better use of the same hardware.
HMM Word Alignment— 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.
HMM Word Alignment— 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.
HMM Word Alignment— 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.
The other direction
Looking at it from the other side?
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