There is work published on making mert more stable (on the train so can't easily dig it up)
Miles sent using Android On 25 Mar 2011 12:49, "Lane Schwartz" <[email protected]> wrote: We know that there is nondeterminism during optimization, yet virtually all papers report results based on a single MERT run. We know that results can very widely based on language pair and data sets, but a large majority of papers report results on a single language pair, and often for a single data set. While these issues are widely known at the informal level, I think that Suzy's point is well taken. I think there would be value in published studies showing just how wide the gap due to nondeterminism can be expected to be. It may be that such studies already exist, and I'm just not aware of them. Does anyone know of any? Cheers, Lane On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 7:03 AM, Barry Haddow <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi > > This is an is... -- When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere. -- R.A. Heinlein, "Time Enough For Love"
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