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
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> 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
>
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