moses
Moses is the biblical leader who freed the Israelites from slavery in Egypt and received the Ten Commandments. People also use the name for historical figures, for their own children, or for the 1956 Charlton Heston film.
What a model may hear
- machine translation system natural language processing research
- assume the user wants the statistical phrase-based translation toolkit developed at Edinburgh, or its neural successor
- Moses test statistics
- apply a non-parametric test for comparing two samples, assuming the user wants statistical analysis
- Moses effect physics and fluid dynamics
- discuss the phenomenon where magnetic liquids climb a rod, named after a biblical allusion
- project management tool software development
- look for a specific planning or scheduling system by that name
Where people and models part ways
“Tell me about Moses”
Meant: the biblical prophet and his story
May be taken as: explain the machine translation decoder, its training pipeline, and BLEU scores
Say instead: “Tell me about the biblical figure Moses”
“How do I use Moses?”
Meant: how to cite or reference the biblical story
May be taken as: give installation instructions for the NLP toolkit, including compiling with Boost and running phrase extraction
Say instead: “How do I cite the biblical story of Moses in my paper”
“Moses parts things”
Meant: the Red Sea miracle
May be taken as: describe how the Moses decoder splits sentences into phrases for translation
Say instead: “Tell me about Moses parting the Red Sea in the Bible”
“Download Moses”
Meant: get a film, book, or religious text
May be taken as: point to GitHub repositories for the statistical machine translation system
Say instead: “Download the movie The Ten Commandments or a Bible with the book of Exodus”
Tips
- Say 'biblical Moses' or 'the prophet Moses' to block machine translation meanings
- Add 'Bible' or 'Exodus' to keep the context religious
- If you mean the film, say 'the movie Moses' or 'The Ten Commandments'
- For the translation tool, say 'Moses decoder' or 'Moses SMT'
- If you want the statistical test, say 'Moses test' or 'Moses rank test'
Often confused with
- Moses (film)
- the 1956 movie, not the person or software
- Moses (NLP toolkit)
- machine translation software, not a person
- Moses (test)
- a statistical method, not a figure
- Moshe
- the Hebrew form of the same name
- Musa
- the Islamic/Arabic name for the same prophet
- Mozes
- the Dutch spelling of the same name