MALLET: How to implement crf based editing distance?

Question

I am looking for someone who details / a MALLET in detail . I know this is a great tool for ML tasks, and now I'm trying to implement a CRF-based distance algorithm described here by Andrew McCallum, Kedar Bellare and Fernando Pereira .

The authors said that they understood the proposed model as the Mallet FST class. Unfortunately, java is not a language that is well known to me as Ruby, so I have some problems to understand how to use their model, for example, which classes, I stuck with the lack of documentation in the huge structure of Mallet classes.

It would be nice to hear some guidance on how to implement the algorithm using Mallet.

Answer 1

Please take a look at the introduction of Mallet 0.4: http://courses.washington.edu/ling572/winter07/homework/mallet_guide.pdf