yep, that should do the trick.
this is actually an argument for *preserving case* at all stages, rather
than throwing information away and only re-introducing it later (with
possible random effects like that one).
out of curiosity, what happens when you use -1 instead (no limits on
reordering)
Miles
2008/6/25 John D. Burger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Miles Osborne wrote:
>
> this sounds like a bug to me: recasing should just be a mapping from
>> lower-case to mixed-case, with no other changes.
>>
>
> Some might argue it's not a bug - perhaps allowing one more chance at very
> local re-ordering, based on caseful tokens, might effect a small improvement
> for some data. It certainly fails the Principle of Least Surprise, however.
>
> off-hand i can't remember how true casing is done in Moses; if it is baby
>> translation, then forcing monotone reordering should do the trick.
>>
>
>
> Do you mean "-distortion-limit 0" at decode time? The actual recasing
> appears to be done by a wrapper script, recase.perl.
> This calls moses with "-dl 1" - changing this to 0 does indeed cause the
> recaser step to only change case, on my devtest at least. Awesome!
>
> If this is a bug, that seems to be the fix, so here's a patch (as if that's
> easier than simply changing that one character :).
>
> --- /trunk/scripts/recaser/recase.perl 2007-05-24 11:41:28.000000000 -0400
> +++ recase.perl 2008-06-25 16:43:43.000000000 -0400
> @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@
> my $sentence = 0;
> my $infile = $INFILE;
> $infile =~ s/[\.\/]/_/g;
> -open(MODEL,"$MOSES -v 0 -f $RECASE_MODEL -i $INFILE -dl 1|");
> +open(MODEL,"$MOSES -v 0 -f $RECASE_MODEL -i $INFILE -dl 0|");
> binmode(MODEL, ":utf8");
> while(<MODEL>) {
> chomp;
>
> Anyway, thanks for your quick reply!
>
> - John Burger
> MITRE
>
>
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