Hi, the computationally expensive part are the *.classes files.
-phi On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 3:59 PM, James Read<[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Quoting Philipp Koehn <[email protected]>: > >> Hi, >> >> yes, it is correct that step 1 is doing just the data preparation for >> GIZA++. >> The most time-consuming step is running mkcls to creake the classes >> for the relative distortion models. >> > > Do you mean the *.vcb files that are created in Step 1? These just look like > dictionary files with 3 fields a) a numeric ID, b) the word entry, c) the > frequency of the string. My make_dictionary function does this in about 20 > seconds. Why is mkcls taking so long? Is it doing something complicated that > I have missed here? > > James > >> -phi >> >> On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 4:39 PM, James Read<[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> does anyone know what step 1 of the moses training script does other >>> than produce the dictionaries and the numerical sentences that enable >>> GIZA++ to do its job. The reason I ask is that on my machine step 1 >>> takes just over 70 mins for en-fr Europarl corpus. >>> >>> My optimised version of data preparation and EM IBM Model 1 completes >>> is 121 seconds for five iterations of EM, that's just over 2 minutes. >>> Before publishing these results I just wanted to make sure there's >>> nothing I've missed about step 1 of the training process. Does it do >>> anything at all that influences GIZA++ other than preparing the >>> digital sentences? >>> >>> James >>> >>> -- >>> The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in >>> Scotland, with registration number SC005336. >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Moses-support mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/moses-support >>> >> >> > > > > -- > The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in > Scotland, with registration number SC005336. > > > _______________________________________________ Moses-support mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/moses-support
