I agree with you Ventsi,

just to add that the "full" format of id is the following :
([setId][docId][sentId])
This just to avoid the following warning message : "WARNING: Unable to fully
parse id: ID0"

Good luck
Loïc

2010/5/22 "Венцислав Жечев (Ventsislav Zhechev)" <
[email protected]>

> Hi,
>
> I had some trouble running TER recently as well, mostly due to the sparse
> documentation.
>
> In order to run TER, there are two main file formats that you can use
> (there’s a third format as well, but I’m not familiar with it). Since you
> are already running BLEU and METEOR, the simplest would be to use the same
> SGML files with TER that you produced for those metrics.
> This, however, won’t work if your text contains actual XML tags within the
> sentences. In this case, simply add to the end of each line in your plain
> text ref and hyp files the sentence number in parenthesis, like this:
>
> word1 word2 word3 … wordn (sentID1)
> word1 word2 word3 … wordn (sentID2)
>
> There’s more information that can be put in the parenthesis (like document
> ID, etc.), but simply using the sentence ID would be enough. If several
> lines have the same sentence ID, they will be treated as multiple reference
> translations of the same sentence.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ventzi
>
> –––––––
> Dr. Ventsislav Zhechev
> EuroMatrix+, CNGL
> Dublin City University
> Dublin, Ireland
>
> http://ventsislavzhechev.eu
>
> 22.05.2010, в 17:04, [email protected] написал(а):
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have planned my research to depend on three metrics "BLEU","TER" and
> METEOR" for output evaluation, rather than just depending on BLEU. As manual
> (found on moses web site) specifies, I downloaded tercom-0.7.25.tgz from
> www.cs.umd.edu/~snover/tercom/tercom-0.7.25.tgz.
> > The following command has been used for evaluation as TER Readme file
> suggests,
> > % java -jar tercom.7.25.jar -r <ref file in plain text format> -h
> <hypothesis file in plain text format>
> >
> > but ,
> > there were many warnings "invalid lines" in reference file and finally,
> > ***ERROR*** No reference for segment <a phrase> was shown on the output.
> >
> > Could you please help me? to overcome this issue?.. I am thanking for
> your attention and help...
> >
> > S.Sripirakas.
>
>
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