mosesdecoder/moses/PCNTools.h

// $Id$

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Moses - factored phrase-based language decoder
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#ifndef moses_PCNTools
#define moses_PCNTools

#include <vector>
#include <map>
#include <string>
#include <utility>
#include <cstdlib>

/** A couple of utilities to read .pcn files. A python-compatible format
 * for encoding confusion networks and word lattices.
 */
namespace PCN
{

struct CNAlt
{
	CNAlt()
	{}
	CNAlt(const std::string &word,
			const std::vector<float> &denseFeatures,
			const std::map<std::string, float> &sparseFeatures,
			size_t next)
	:m_word(word)
	,m_denseFeatures(denseFeatures)
	,m_sparseFeatures(sparseFeatures)
	,m_next(next)
	{}

	std::string m_word;
	std::vector<float> m_denseFeatures;
	std::map<std::string, float> m_sparseFeatures;
	size_t m_next;
};

//typedef std::pair<std::pair<std::string, std::vector<float> >, size_t> CNAlt;
typedef std::vector<CNAlt> CNCol;
typedef std::vector<CNCol> CN;

/** Given a string ((('foo',0.1,1),('bar',0.9,2)),...) representation of a
 * word lattice in PCN format, return a CN object representing the lattice
 */
CN parsePCN(const std::string& in);

};

#endif