Just to close the loop on this, in case anyone else runs into this issue. I simply hadn't deleted all the files in the training directories after the first run in the opposite direction. The training script reuses some of the files if they already exist, rather than overriding.
Now our Moses instance translates from English to French, using an unfactored software documentation corpus of 22 million words in 2 million entries. We haven't looked into tuning or other types of optimization yet, but the quality of the French output is already impressive as is. Mirko -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Philipp Koehn Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 4:39 PM To: Mirko Plitt Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Moses-support] Changing the translation direction Hi, the translation direction is set by "--f" and "--e", so you are on the right track. "--f" is the input language and "--e" is the output language. I have no idea what is going wrong in your case. You will have to rerun training in a new directory, you will have to build a language model in the right output language, etc. -phi On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 12:28 PM, Mirko Plitt <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > > > This sounds very silly, but I don't seem to be able to figure out how to get > Moses to translate *from* English into foreign. No matter whether I train on > my English/French corpus using the switches "-f fr -e en" or "-f en -e fr", > it will translate *into* English. Although, admittedly, it does that quite > well :-/ > > > > Is there some obvious place where one can specify the translation direction > that I have missed? > > > > Thanks, > > Mirko > > _______________________________________________ > Moses-support mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/moses-support > > _______________________________________________ Moses-support mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/moses-support _______________________________________________ Moses-support mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/moses-support
