Hi folks, although "just slower" you might indeed still want to compile IRSTLM and SRILM at least to estimate and build your LM files.
We are currently working to get a new release of IRSTLM ready which should be both faster and thread safe. It will also provide new features that will allow to manage different sorts of LMs which are currently not supported by the other LM libraries. Please notice that we are NOT inviting you to NOT use other's software. We are in fact thankful to the other open source developers for providing to the community good quality and useful software. We also like to see fair comparisons among different implementations and believe that these can stimulate further technology improvements to the benefit of all. Finally, we like thinking of our work like a friendly competition in which no one is trying to diminish the other's work. Greetings, Marcello Federico ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ On Sep 26, 2011, at 11:44 AM, Kenneth Heafield wrote: > Hi, > > Since the sample language models are provided for you, it is no > longer necessary to compile SRILM or IRSTLM (though you can if you want > to use the specific features they provide; otherwise they're just > slower). I've updated the getting started documentation. > > Kenneth > > On 09/26/11 09:32, Jehan Pages wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 3:48 PM, Nicola Bertoldi <berto...@fbk.eu> wrote: >>> I am going to release (very soon) a new version of Moses including new LM >>> types >>> Stay tuned on IRSTLM webpage >>> >>> If you need immediately, get the code from the IRSTLM SF repository >>> >>> you can download revision 452, which properly interfaces with the latest >>> revision of Moses >> Thanks for the answer. As right now, I am mainly testing this engine, >> the development version from the repo suits me ok. Anyway Moses >> compiled fine using revision 452 of IRSTLM. So that's great. Thanks >> again! >> >> Also just to be sure, in the "getting started" page, the sample models >> which are linked are only for SRILM, right? Because I wanted to test >> as explained in the page, and I get: >> >> [...] >> Start loading LanguageModel lm/europarl.srilm.gz : [0.000] seconds >> ERROR:Language model type unknown. Probably not compiled into library >> Segmentation fault >> >> >> Seeing the srilm.gz extension, I guess that won't work with only >> IRSTLM compiled in. That information may be worth being updated into >> the "Getting started" page. :-) >> I guess I'll have to test directly with more complete data. >> >> Jehan >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Moses-support mailing list >> Moses-support@mit.edu >> http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/moses-support > > _______________________________________________ > Moses-support mailing list > Moses-support@mit.edu > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/moses-support _______________________________________________ Moses-support mailing list Moses-support@mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/moses-support
