maria sol ferrer wrote:

> Hi, I am going to be  working on my thesis with moses and I a having  
> some problems getting started.. So far I was able to download and  
> install Moses and all its necessary tools successfully, tried the  
> one sentence example and worked fine.. Now I am trying to do the  
> training that is available on the "Moses installation and training  
> run-through" (http://www.statmt.org/moses_steps.html) but when I run  
> moses, during step 2.1a I was getting this error:
>
> *** buffer overflow detected ***: /home/puchi/tools/bin/GIZA++  
> terminated
>
> now, a few days later without changing anything it seems to go to  
> step 2.1b but I get:


In my experience, the buffer overflow error is due to not sufficiently  
filtering your corpus - GIZA is unhappy with very long segments.  That  
same page describes the "Filter out long sentences" step, with an  
example invocation like this:

   clean-corpus-n.perl ... 1 40

What value are you using for the max length?  I would decrease this  
until GIZA stops throwing the error.

Also, I suspect it only appears to go on to step 2.1b because some  
partial file is laying around - don't be fooled.

- John D. Burger
   MITRE

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