There were also some experiments during the CLSP workshop that built
Moses (Fig. 6.8):
http://www.clsp.jhu.edu/ws2006/groups/ossmt/documents/jhu-summer-workshop-final-report.pdf

Since MERT is only tuning a handful of parameters, it would be
somewhat surprising if a drastically large tuning set made a
difference.

2011/5/30 marco turchi <[email protected]>:
> Hi Miles,
> I check how tuning time changes according to the tuning set size. I do not
> use a "drastically large tuning set" but I guess it can give an idea.
> Section 4.5 of this technical report:
> https://patterns.enm.bris.ac.uk/files/LearningCurveMain.pdf
>
> Cheers
> Marco
>
>
> On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Miles Osborne <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> well spotted.  also, the OP needs to make sure that MERT is not run on
>> the training set.  it needs to be disjoint
>>
>> as a matter of interest, need this be a Bad Thing?  (apart from using
>> resources).  it would be interesting for someone with the time to run
>> MERT with a drastically large tuning set.
>>
>> Miles
>>
>> On 30 May 2011 10:01, Adam Lopez <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > From the error it appears that you are running MERT on hundreds of
>> > thousands of sentences.  It generally only needs ~1000 sentences.
>> >
>> > 2011/5/30 [Intra] Mariusz Hawryłkiewicz <[email protected]>:
>> >> Hello Moses team!
>> >>
>> >> I just wanted to ask you if it’s normal for mert to run over 10 days on
>> >> a
>> >> multicore machine (2 processors with 8 cores – AMD Opteron) and 24GB of
>> >> RAM?
>> >> The bilingual corpora is about 400k sentences large, and I am running
>> >> mert
>> >> with the following command:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> /moses/install/skrypty/scripts-20110516-1443/training/mert-moses.pl
>> >> /moses/korpusy/ERP_test/lowercased/erp.lowercased.en
>> >> /moses/korpusy/ERP_test/lowercased/erp.lowercased.pl
>> >> /moses/install/moses/moses-cmd/src/moses /moses/install/model/moses.ini
>> >> --working-dir /moses/korpusy/ERP_test/tuning/ --rootdir
>> >> /moses/install/skrypty/scripts-20110516-1443/
>> >> --mertdir=/moses/install/moses/mert/ --decoder-flags "-v 0 -threads 16"
>> >> >&
>> >> /moses/korpusy/ERP_test/tuning/mert.out &
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Over these 10 days mert was able to run just 2 iterations and generated
>> >> some
>> >> moses.ini file with weights, but mert.out file shows that the process
>> >> wasn’t
>> >> finished at all. It ended up suddenly and the last message is:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Translating line 246297 in thread id
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Isuppose this is not normal mert behavior.. what am I doing wrong then?
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Thanks for any hint on the issue!
>> >>
>> >> Best regards
>> >>
>> >> Mariusz
>> >>
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