Hi Michael

I don't have any plans to update Moses server, and in fact Moses server 
may get replaced by code from the matecat project. They currently have a 
different server application (below) and it may support nbests - you'd 
have to check with Christian

https://github.com/christianbuck/matecat_util/blob/master/python_server/server.py

cheers - Barry

On 10/09/12 13:04, Michael Matuschek wrote:
> Hi Barry,
>
> bad to hear. So I suppose I have to set up a regular moses installation on my 
> machine to use this then.
>
> I guess there are no immediate plans to add this functionality? I ask because 
> I don't really have the time or expertise to look into this myself right now.
>
> Best,
>
> Michael
> ________________________________________
> Von: Barry Haddow [bhad...@staffmail.ed.ac.uk]
> Gesendet: Montag, 10. September 2012 13:29
> An: Michael Matuschek
> Betreff: Re: [Moses-support] Outputting translation alternatives from the 
> moses server
>
> Hi Michael
>
> The current implementation of moses server doesn't support nbest lists,
> but it wouldn't be too hard to add it.
>
> cheers - Barry
>
> On 10/09/12 07:59, Michael Matuschek wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a moses translation server up and running, which works just
>> fine for using it in a JAVA application, but what I would need right
>> now are multiple translation alternatives for the same source text. I
>> understand that I can output the n-best matches for a translation, but
>> how do I do that when I’m running the server? Starting the server with
>> the corresponding command line option
>>
>> /srv/mosesdecoder/server/mosesserver -f /srv/moses.en-de.backed.ini
>> -n-best-list /home/matuschek/nbest.txt 10 --server-port 8081
>>
>> had no effect, same for configuring it in the ini file.
>>
>> [n-best-list]
>>
>> /home/matuschek/nbest.txt
>>
>> 10
>>
>> When I start up the server it does output that the parameter is
>> configured
>>
>> Defined parameters (per moses.ini or switch):
>>
>> config: /srv/moses.en-de.backend.ini
>>
>> decode-graph-backoff: 0 5
>>
>> distortion-file: 0-0 wbe-msd-bidirectional-fe-allff 6
>> /srv/model-en-de/reordering-table.binary
>>
>> distortion-limit: 6
>>
>> input-factors: 0
>>
>> lmodel-file: 0 0 5 /srv/lm-de/europarl.lm
>>
>> mapping: 0 T 0 1 T 1
>>
>> n-best-list: /home/matuschek/nbest.txt 10
>>
>> …
>>
>> But no output file is ever generated. What am I supposed to do?
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Michael
>>
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