clearly changing the configuration will change the alignment results. i suggest that before mailing the list again, you read this article:
A Systematic Comparison of Various. Statistical Alignment Models. Franz Josef Och*. Hermann Ney http://acl.ldc.upenn.edu/J/J03/J03-1002.pdf Miles 2010/10/3 musa ghurab <[email protected]>: > Thank Venkataramani, > > But on giza++ website http://fjoch.com/GIZA++.html they said "Alignment > models depending on word classes". And on mkcls website > http://www-i6.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/Colleagues/och/software/mkcls.html > they said "-n number of optimization runs (Default: 1); larger number => > better results" > I changed this number to -n10 where it was -n2 on train-model.perl, and that > gaves a different alignment file. > Any explanation? > > Thanks > > ________________________________ > Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2010 02:23:06 -0400 > Subject: Re: [Moses-support] giza++ best alignment > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > > That purely depends on your corpus. There is no such thing as the best > configuration > > 2010/10/2 musa ghurab <[email protected]> > > Hi > > Please if someone tell me, what is the best configuration for giza++ to get > the best alignment file?if time and size are ignored (or not important) > > > with best regard > musa > > > _______________________________________________ > Moses-support mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/moses-support > > > > > -- > Eknath Venkataramani > > _______________________________________________ > 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
