Re: [Moses-support] [decoding-graph-backoff]

2015-01-09 Thread Raj Dabre
Hey, I have used the multiple decoding paths with and without the backoff procedures. I once experimented with using a French-English phrase table as a backoff table when translating from Creole (Mauritian) to English (I had a small Creole-English corpus). I found that I got a decent improvement i

Re: [Moses-support] [decoding-graph-backoff]

2015-01-09 Thread Hieu Hoang
>From the git history, I think it was slightly broken, then I broke it even more in May 2014. https://github.com/moses-smt/mosesdecoder/commit/44fec57c535db2df73ccbb1628d8143a9c728c19 It was endPos-startPos+1 >= backoff then endPos-startPos+1 <= backoff I think it should be endPos-startPos

Re: [Moses-support] [decoding-graph-backoff]

2015-01-09 Thread Marcin Junczys-Dowmunt
Hm, we have been using it at WIPO, but I have to admit I never checked it _actually_ does anything useful. We sorta believe it does. W dniu 09.01.2015 o 16:08, Hieu Hoang pisze: Hi All Does anyone use this functionality in Moses when you have multiple phrase-tables? From the code, it doesn'

[Moses-support] [decoding-graph-backoff]

2015-01-09 Thread Hieu Hoang
Hi All Does anyone use this functionality in Moses when you have multiple phrase-tables? >From the code, it doesn't look like it works as described in http://www.statmt.org/moses/?n=Moses.AdvancedFeatures Maybe I'm missing something -- Hieu Hoang Research Associate University of Edinburgh ht