Hi,

I have fixed the problem. Now I get exactly the same score with IRSTLM. 
The code from a colleague I was using did not take into acount the 
initial n-grams of the sentence.

Thank you very much for your help
Regards
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Felipe

El 29/10/10 21:22, Hieu Hoang escribió:
> yes, the lm scores are calculated with<s>  is added to the beginning of
> the sentence (&  </s>  added to the end). Since a phrase-based creates
> target sentences left-to-right, you always know where the beginning is.
> For chart decoding, it's also added but the input explicitly has
> <s>...</s>  so the only added when the 1st&  last 'word' are translated.
>
> It's usually better to have<s>  </s>  symbols but you're right about
> problems if it's in your trans. model. This was done in this paper with
> some positive result
>
> http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~ymarton/pub/wmt09/DyerSetiawanMartonResnik_wmt09_UMD-SMT-sys.pdf
>
> Perhaps it should be an option
>
>> Does this happen when kenlm is called from Moses as well?
>>
>> There seem to me to be many reasons not to do this:  How do you know
>> whether full sentences are being translated?  What if the translation
>> model already includes sentence boundary tokens?  (See my recent
>> message about why this might be desirable)
>>
>> But most importantly: How do you know whether the language model was
>> trained that way?
>>
>> - John Burger
>>      MITRE
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