Thanks Chris!

So currently, there's no trick to impose hard constraints for some weights?

Regards,
Thang

On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 10:55 PM, Chris Dyer <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Thang,
> The ranges that are specified for moses are just suggestions for random
> starting points for the MERT algorithm.  However, it may (and often does)
> find weights that end up outside of these ranges.
> -Chris
>
> On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 2:32 AM, Thang Luong Minh 
> <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Dear experts,
>>
>> I noticed for several settings of my system, I obtained optimal weights
>> which are negative even though the default search range is [0, 0.5]. E.g.
>> the weight for PhraseModel_4 (lexical feature) below.
>> PhraseModel_1   0.045
>> PhraseModel_2   0.237
>> PhraseModel_3   0.048
>> PhraseModel_4   -0.097
>> PhraseModel_5   0.024
>>
>> I was wondering if this is a normal behavior, and hope someone could
>> enlighten me on that. If it is normal, how should I strictly enforce the
>> range?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Thang
>>
>> --
>> Luong Minh Thang
>> WING group, School of Computing, National University of Singapore
>> http://wing.comp.nus.edu.sg/~lmthang<http://wing.comp.nus.edu.sg/%7Elmthang>
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