>  > You can use the --giza-option to tell GIZA to use a different model,
>  > but I don't believe the moses scripts can be told look for the
>  > nonstandard file that GIZA will generate in this case (they are named
>  > differently for the kind of model used).  But, this wouldn't be hard
>  > to make this configurable or to hard code it.
>
>  Doesn't choosing only one iteration for the subsequent models
>  essentially do this?  We usually run with:
>
>    -giza-option="m1=5,m2=0,mh=5,m3=1,m4=1"
>
>  which for some reason I had internalized as simply "transferring" the
>  final HMM settings to models 3 and then 4, without any real re-
>  estimation.  Am I hallucinating this?  :)

I'm fairly sure it reruns one optimization iteration.  And, in any
case, it would use the HMM parameters to run model 4 alignment (with
the heuristic initialization of the fertility and distortion
parameters that GIZA uses), which is probably not particularly good.

Chris
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