Thanks, Kenneth,

This was revision 3796, I will try with a newer version. 

> Hi,
> 
>       What revision of Moses are you using?  Does this still happen
> after you
> run svn up and recompile Moses?
> 
> Kenneth
> 
> On 02/07/11 10:53, Kārlis Goba wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > My preferred way to build large LMs has been IRSTLM as it can handle
> large corpora nicely by splitting the task. The produced binary LMs
> work well with Moses. Then I decided to try the new and shiny KenLM.
> However, when converting the result to KenLM format, the converted LM
> gives a lot worse BLEU score.
> >
> > I am building the LMs in this way:
> >
> > 1) build-lm.sh - build iARPA LM
> > 2) prune-lm
> > 3) compile-lm - convert iARPA to binary IRSTLM (gives me 0.3346 BLEU)
> > 4) compile-lm --text=yes - convert iARPA to ARPA
> > 5) build_binary trie - convert ARPA to KenLM (gives me 0.2543 BLEU)
> >
> > The moses.ini for both cases is the same, differing only in the LM
> line (1 0 5 "/mnt/smt/lm/mt4-lv-lcase/lm-pruned.blm" vs "8 0 5
> /mnt/smt/lm/mt4-lv-lcase/lm-pruned.mmap"). I have observed this in more
> than one case.
> >
> > I don't know who blame - either the conversion from iARPA to ARPA or
> KenLM.
> >
> > What is your best practice for estimating large LMs to be converted
> to KenLM? Is it SRILM?
> >
> > --
> > Karlis
> >
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