Hi Neda

You should also consider how to evaluate the different reordering models. If 
you're using Bleu, then it  isn't necessarily the best method. There's been 
some recent work on this, such as:

Birch and Osborne
http://aclweb.org/anthology-new/P/P11/P11-1103.pdf

Talbot et al
http://aclweb.org/anthology-new/W/W11/W11-2102.pdf


cheers - Barry


On Wednesday 31 Aug 2011 13:00:13 Neda NoorMohammadi wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> We are testing different reordering models in our system ( source language
> structure is sov and target is svo).
> The results are amazing! The distance based model improves the results in
> compare to lexical reordering models.
> 
> we want to know is it true for other pair languages and also:
> Isn't it true that lexical reordering is offered to improve the reordering
> models? Then why we have get just the reverse?! How we can argument why it
> has happend to our system?
> 
> Also I have checked the LexicalReorderingState.cpp class. There is a
> commented part in the code which shows it has uses no smoothing model for
> estimating none-seen events of this model. Am I right?
> 
> Thanks
> 
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