HMM Word Alignment

Closed weights University of Erlangen - Nuremburg August 1996

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 Germany, in August 1996. It comes out of academia.

It works in Language, and is recorded as doing 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 about 150,279 tokens of text.

Answers

HMM Word Alignment — common questions

01

How many parameters does HMM Word Alignment have?

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

02

Who created HMM Word Alignment?

HMM Word Alignment was published by University of Erlangen - Nuremburg, based in Germany, categorised as academia.

03

When was HMM Word Alignment released?

HMM Word Alignment 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.

04

What is HMM Word Alignment used for?

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

05

What GPU do I need to run HMM Word Alignment?

None. HMM Word Alignment 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

Is HMM Word Alignment open source?

The licensing for HMM Word Alignment 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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