[Moses-support] The Apertium free/open-source machine translation project in Google Code-In 2013

2013-11-03 Thread Mikel L. Forcada
*The Apertium free/open-source machine translation project in Google Code-In 2013* [Apologies for multiple postings] The *Apertium project* [1], which develops a free/open-source rule-based machine translation platform, is, for the fourth year in a row, one of the 10 free/open-source organiza

Re: [Moses-support] gappy phrases

2013-11-03 Thread Kenneth Heafield
Hi, I'll throw in the anecdote that gappy phrases are currently not in use at Stanford. My predecessor told me that it took a lot longer and only improved BLEU slightly on Chinese-English. But it's also possible that something didn't get passed down correctly from Michel to my predecesso

Re: [Moses-support] [Question?]How to ensure that all N-best list will be included in Moses search graph?

2013-11-03 Thread Hieu Hoang
can you please send me the output search graph and the n-best list for the 1 sentence where you are seeing this error. Also, please send me the script you use to check whether a sentence is in the graph. I don't think it is possible for a sentence to be in the nbest list but not in the search gra

Re: [Moses-support] gappy phrases

2013-11-03 Thread Read, James C
My understanding is that they used a similar approach as the grammar extraction to extract the gappy phrases. Would it be a massive undertaking to get Moses to support this? James From: Barry Haddow [bhad...@staffmail.ed.ac.uk] Sent: 30 October 2013 09:26

Re: [Moses-support] -lm training parameter

2013-11-03 Thread Read, James C
Thanks. So if you wanted to train and at a later date use a different LM with the already trained TM would it just be a simple case of manually editing moses.ini? If I were to edit the training script to skip the check that LM file exists (it doesn't) it wouldn't break anything would it? James

Re: [Moses-support] -lm training parameter

2013-11-03 Thread Tom Hoar
You are correct that train-model.perl script does not use the -lm parameter through any of the word alignment or phrase scoring steps. The script's step 9 builds a template moses.ini configuration file and includes the values from the -lm parameter. At the beginning, the script checks that the

[Moses-support] -lm training parameter

2013-11-03 Thread Read, James C
Hi, does anybody know what the effect of the -lm training parameter in the training script is? Surely the LM used has no effect on typical training tasks like word alignment and phrase scoring? thanks, James ___ Moses-support mailing list Moses-suppo