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 > _______________________________________________ Moses-support mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/moses-support
