Sanne Korzec wrote: > I have a question on lexical weighting from the paper: philipp > koehn, och, marcu. Statistical Phrase Based Translation. On page 5, > subsection 4.4 Lexical weighting, an example is given how to compute > lexical weights.
... > But then, how can source word f2 be mapped to two target words? > Viterbi alignments only allow each source word to be mapped to one > target word. What’s going on here? I haven't refreshed my memory of that paper, but I suspect these alignments are after symmetrization, where the Viterbi alignments from both directions are (heuristically) merged. This often produces many- to-many alignments. - John D. Burger MITRE _______________________________________________ Moses-support mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/moses-support
