Hi,

Quoting Philipp Koehn <[email protected]>:

> Hi,
>
> the computationally expensive part are the *.classes files.
>

again, these files just have two columns. A string in the first column  
and what looks like a count in the second column. Why should counting  
strings take so long? Am I missing something here?

James

> -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
>>>>
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