we don't have loads of old experiments we need to rerun but if you do, make
the change. It sounds reasonable.

On 12 May 2010 13:58, Christian Hardmeier <c...@rax.ch> wrote:

> Hi Hieu
>
> > chris - we can add a default=1 but talked to pwilliams about it, would
> > need to keep the back compatiblity in the mert scripts & other places
> > too. Would just be a source of constant bugs.
>
> I just discussed the matter with my office mate Arianna. We would favour
> the following solution:
> - default of 1 for the decoder
> - error message about new format from MERT and other scripts
>
> The reason is that we have lots of fully trained old systems lying
> around that we'd like to use without modifications. We also have old
> patched
> versions of the decoder, which we sometimes still use.
> On the other hand, we don't think MERT needs to be able to deal with the
> old format. If I retrain a system, I can also adapt the config file
> format.
>
> Does this sound reasonable to you?
>
> /Christian
>
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