nltk.Alignment.fromstring¶

classmethod Alignment.fromstring(s)[source]¶

Read a giza-formatted string and return an Alignment object.

>>> Alignment.fromstring('0-0 2-1 9-2 21-3 10-4 7-5')
Alignment([(0, 0), (2, 1), (7, 5), (9, 2), (10, 4), (21, 3)])

Parameters:	s (str) – the positional alignments in giza format
Return type:	Alignment
Returns:	An Alignment object corresponding to the string representation s.