For my purposes, even a hard-coded assumption of 1, along with a more
transparent error message if the model isn't found, would do. Does
anybody actually decode with in-memory phrase tables in real life?
(well, I suppose some people do...)

/Christian

On Tue, 11 May 2010, Barry Haddow wrote:

> Maybe a more transparent error message would help?
> 
> On Tuesday 11 May 2010 17:20:26 Hieu Hoang wrote:
> > i thought about making it back-compatible but the code gets messy and
> > error prone. Theres now 3 more phrase table - the text SCFG, binary
> > SCFG, and the suffix array.
> > 
> > So i thought it better to take the punch now and feel a short, sharp
> > pain rather than let it linger.
> > 
> > however, anyone wants to put back the old code to make it back comp,
> > they're welcome to, as long as u look after it
> > 
> > On 11/05/2010 17:04, Christian Hardmeier wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > >> The first error that you give is because the format of the moses.ini
> > >> file has changed. You need to add an extra digit at the beginning of the
> > >> line that specifies the ttable-file. Add 0 for a memory-based ttable,
> > >> and 1 for a binarised ttable.
> > >
> > > Is there a reason why we can't have backwards compatibility here? I'm a
> > > bit concerned about moving to the latest decoder version since it will
> > > require me to update the configuration file of each and every system
> > > I've ever trained, and then they won't work with the old decoders any
> > > more. Couldn't the decoder figure out on its own whether it should be 0
> > > or 1 if the indication is missing, as it used to do?
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Christian
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