Thanks a lot
Marco

On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 7:32 PM, Chris Dyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> The Johnson et al. technique is not used by default.  You have to
> build sigtest-filter (which requires a suffix array toolkit from CMU,
> instructions are in the directory).  The parameters are set on the
> command line.  Running the binary with no parameters will give
> instructions.  The standard values that Johnson suggests are available
> by default.
>
> Chris
>
> On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 5:52 PM, marco turchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > Hi
> > thanks a lot for the answers...
> > Sorry my question was not clear. I was wondering if Giza or later in the
> > Moses pipeline, the software that creates the phrase, do not consider
> those
> > alignments that are not supported by enough data in the training set.
> >
> > If I have understood in the right way the answer is yes, the (Johnson et
> al.
> > 2007) techniques.
> >
> > just one more question (maybe two :-) ):
> > is the (Johnson et al. 2007) a default technique in Moses?
> > how is the threshold set?
> >
> > thanks a lot
> > Marco
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 6:35 PM, Chris Dyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>
> >> > There are also various post hoc approaches to removing noise from
> >> > phrases tables and alignments.  Some recent examples:
> >> > http://aclweb.org/anthology-new/D/D07/D07-1103.pdf
> >> > http://aclweb.org/anthology-new/W/W08/W08-0306.pdf
> >> >
> >> > Although there's nothing like this included in Moses, it would be easy
> >> > to contribute one as a standalone script.
> >> Actually, the first paper above (Johnson et al. 2007) is implemented
> >> and included in moses.  I haven't found that it ever improves the
> >> translation performance, but it can significantly reduce the size of
> >> your phrase table.
> >>
> >> Chris
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> >
>
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