Hello,

I was following the instructions here
http://www.statmt.org/wmt07/baseline.html , but it is not clearly to me
exactly which part of this Europarl data is used for this example.

Nonetheless I downloaded some from 2006 and tried it, but I got many
errors about malformed utf8:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] moses]$ scripts/tokenizer.perl -l en <
moses/wmt07/europarl.fr-en.en > moses/working-dir/corpus/europarl.tok.en
Tokenizer Version 1.0
Language: en
utf8 "\xE1" does not map to Unicode at scripts/tokenizer.perl line 38,
<STDIN> line 88.
Malformed UTF-8 character (fatal) at scripts/tokenizer.perl line 53,
<STDIN> line 88.

I am really surprised the supplied data is not clean! Does everybody
clean up the data themselves by hand, or is there a script somewhere?

Anyway... as I want to trial Moses with Austronesian languages the
Europarl data is not so helpful. I started using a pair of files I
prepared myself which have around 1400 parallel sentences/phrases, one
per line. Some are very short, like single words.

I was doing OK, and followed all the other commands successfully, until
I got to the ngram-count command:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] moses]$ ~/srilm/bin/i686/ngram-count -order 5 -interpolate
-kndiscount -text working-dir/lm/raw.lowercased -lm
working-dir/lm/raw.lm
one of modified KneserNey discounts is negative
error in discount estimator for order 5


The use of clean-corpus-n.perl with parameters 1 & 40 would suggest to
me that very short sentences are OK, so any suggestions about what is
causing this error or how to fix it?

thanks,
Brianna
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