The IBM Models allow a target word to be generated by any set of  
source word indexes (within the distortion limit), which are not  
required to be contiguous (i.e. a phrase).  I don't believe that the  
current Moses codebase does this, so you would either need to  
implement it, or live without this capability and only allow target  
words to be generated by a contiguous sequence of source words.  If  
you're ok with the latter option, you could probably find a way to  
sneak the IBM Model parameterizations into a phrase table.  I leave  
this as an exercise for the reader.

The ISI Rewrite decoder is designed to work with IBM Model 4, but  
alas, it appears to be no longer available.  You might email the  
authors to find out.
http://www.isi.edu/licensed-sw/rewrite-decoder/


Adam

On 16 Jul 2008, at 12:47, Sanne Korzec wrote:

> Hi mailing,
>
> Is there a way to optimize the moses decoder for decoding IBM word  
> based models? Or is it better to use a different decoder for these  
> non phrase based models? If so, any suggestion would be helpful.
>
> Sanne
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