Hi, thanks for your reply, but I have tried wit a cutoff of 40, 20, 10 even
5 words per line and I am still getting the same error, I have followed the
training steps exactly as described and I cant seem to find the problem.
Please any help would be really appreciated! Thank you

2009/6/23 John Burger <[email protected]>

> 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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