Mark Fishel wrote:

> the "--parallel" switch of the train-model.perl script is only
> effective during the first 2 steps -- is there a good reason not to
> make the phrase scoring (step 6) parallel? Currently it contains a
> 'for my $direction ("f2e","e2f")...', and on a large corpus the
> scoring can take quite long -- so shouldn't it be straightforward and
> also useful to run the two in parallel?

In fact, this step be parallelized far more than that pretty easily.  The 
wrapper script already splits the phrase table up into many smaller files, and 
than runs the phrase scorer executable on them sequentially.

- John Burger
  MITRE

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