Hi Hieu,

Thanks for the reply! I guess that addresses my issue of poor
performance by Tree-to-Tree models.

Thanks and regards,

Pratyush

On 09/04/11 01:24, Hieu Hoang wrote:
> If you use the syntax straight out of the parser as-is, i think most
> people have found it hurt performance. Non-syntactic phrases are just
> too useful so you need to do something in addition to just adding a
> parse tree.
>
> On 08/04/2011 11:27, Pratyush Banerjee wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> We have been trying to use Syntax Models for Moses for some time now.
>> We have trained tree-to-tree models and HPB models and were trying to
>> compare the results with standard PBSMT models.
>>
>> We use en-de as language pairs and about 1.2 million lines as
>> training data. For tree to tree models we have used Berkeley Parser
>> for parsing both languages.
>>
>> However i found that Tree-to-Tree scores were much lower(about 4 BLEU
>> points) compared to the PBSMT models. The HPB model (hierarchical
>> moses without syntax) is slightly better than the PBSMT models.
>>
>> Is this behaviour normal. I am quite new to syntax based models,
>> hence the question.
>>
>> Also do we need to parse the devsets during tuning of the
>> tree-to-tree models ?
>>
>> Thanks and regards,
>>
>> Pratyush Banerjee  
>>
>>
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