Thank you Barry, Philipp,

The responsiveness of this list remains impressive!

I will take a look at the miramerge branch. Is there anywere I can read up
on what happened in that branch (beside, of course, the code)?

Best,
Anne

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On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 09:49, Philipp Koehn <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> a much better solution is the use of sparse
> feature functions that compute the feature values
> on the fly and store them efficiently in the decoder.
>
> We created already some such sparse feature function
> in the MIRA branch of the decoder. I am currently not
> sure about in which repository a version of this could
> be found - maybe Barry Haddow or Eva Hasler have
> a better answer.
>
> -phi
>
> On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 8:34 AM, Anne Schuth <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > We are in the process of reimplementing some of the 11,001 new features
> of
> > the Chiang et al. 2009 paper. We are adding a few thousand features to
> our
> > phrase table, causing it to blow up significantly. For tuning purposes we
> > filter the table to only include phrases used by our tuning dataset which
> > brings the size on disk down to about 200MB (gzipped). However, as soon
> as
> > we load this table into memory with Moses, it takes more than 60GB. This
> is
> > not really a surprise I guess since Moses will represent all our 0's as
> > floating points, but it is a problem since not all machines I would like
> to
> > run this on have that much memory.
> > This leads to my question: does Moses support some form of sparse
> > representation of phrase tables? Or, how is this issue generally solved,
> as
> > I am quite sure we are not the first to try this.
> >
> > Any comments, pointers to documentation are very much appreciated!
> >
> > Best,
> > Anne
> >
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> > Anne Schuth
> > ILPS - ISLA - FNWI
> > University of Amsterdam
> > Science Park 904, C3.230
> > 1098 XH AMSTERDAM
> > The Netherlands
> > 0031 (0) 20 525 5357
> >
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