On 10 October 2013 13:33, Nicola Bertoldi <berto...@fbk.eu> wrote:

> Hi Hieu
>
> I read the documentation
> and you mention that you enable the exclusive mode of xml-input
>
> I see few issues:
>
> - you mention that you enable the exclusive mode of xml-input;
>   this can conflict with other usage of xml-input which instead require
> the  inclusive mode.
>   do you have any comments on that?
>

it can be exclusive, inclusive or anything else except pass-through. It
just requires the XML handling to run


>
> - when you use the exclusive mode you force the translation of the span
> (@num@) with "100")
>   and other larger span including @num@ are not allowed
>   am I right?
>   If yes, what is the advantage of having phrase pairs including other
> words
>

it doesn't create XML options, it just needs the XML parsing to run.


>
> - what is the meaning of      "-placeholder-factor 1" ?
>
It stores the original text in the source factor 1. The placeholder symbol
is in the factor 0, or whatever the translation model was configured to use.


>
>
> Nicola Bertoldi
>
>
>
>
> On Oct 10, 2013, at 1:05 PM, Hieu Hoang wrote:
>
> Hi all
>
> Achim and I have been working on adding support for placeholders into
> Moses. That is, replacing a number, date, or named entity with a symbol eg.
> @num@, -date-, =named-entity=. We think it would be especially useful for
> commercial users of Moses, and for people translating text with lots of
> numbers, dates etc.
>
> It is now supported in the Moses training and decoding pipeline. See the
> following URL  for more details.
>    http://www.statmt.org/moses/?n=Moses.AdvancedFeatures#ntoc60
>
> --
> Hieu Hoang
> Research Associate
> University of Edinburgh
> http://www.hoang.co.uk/hieu
>
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