Ken,
Your new enhancements ROCK! Here are some numbers using rev 3675 and
IRSTLM 5.50.01
Machine: Core2Quad, 2.4 Ghz, 4 GB RAM
Data: EN-NL sample data, 37,500 segments (micro test sample)
3 gram LM, 3 gram tables (for fast testing)
Train LM with SRILM &
Train tables/tune/eval with
Moses/SRILM
multi-threading enabled: 75 minutes
BLEU Score: 0.2531
Train LM with IRSTLM
Train tables/tune/eval with
Moses/IRSLM, binarized memap,
single thread: 195 minutes
BLEU Score: 0.2496
Train LM with IRSTLM (ARPA)
Train tables/tune/eval with
Moses/KenLM, binarized memap,
multi-threaded: 50 minutes
BLEU Score: 0.2514
On Wed, 27 Oct 2010 14:15:39 -0400, Kenneth Heafield <mo...@kheafield.com>
wrote:
> Revision 3671 introduces an updated version of kenlm. Queries are
> faster now (no more string vocab lookups, state is kept so backoffs cost
> less). The binary format has changed as a result; please rebuild your
> binary files. Timing is forthcoming.
>
> Kenneth
>
> On 10/18/10 20:31, Kenneth Heafield wrote:
>> Hi Moses,
>>
>> Introducing kenlm in Moses trunk. You no longer need to download a
>> separate language model to use Moses; it's distributed with Moses and
>> compiled in by default on UNIX. This is threadsafe language model
>> inference code that returns the same probabilities as SRI (up to
>> floating point rounding). It loads APRA files in 2/3 the time SRI
takes
>> and uses less memory too. Using kenlm is simple: in your [lmodel-file]
>> section, change the first digit to 8. For example,
>>
>> "0 0 2 foo.arpa" changes to "8 0 2 foo.arpa"
>>
>> For even faster loading, use the binary format:
>>
>> kenlm/build_binary foo.arpa foo.binary
>>
>> then simply provide the binary filename in your moses.ini e.g.
>> "8 0 2 foo.binary"; it auto detects binary files using magic bytes at
>> the beginning.
>>
>> The code is ready for use and provides correct results. Inference is
>> slower than it should be due to inefficiencies in the Moses-side
wrapper
>> code (it does a vocab lookup for all 5 words every time). I'm working
>> on it and once this is done I'll post some benchmarks against SRI and
>> IRST. The binary format is subject to change, but contains a version
>> number so on very rare occasions after, new versions will tell you to
>> rebuild your binary files. Windows is currently not supported (it uses
>> mmap) though I welcome contributions using #ifdef and
CreateFileMapping.
>>
>> Have fun and let me know about your experiences with it.
>>
>> "Ken"
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