Hi Antonio I just noticed that you're using moses from subversion. Moses switched to git last year, so you should use the latest git version. This version works fine for me.
If you have problems with this version too, then could you send me all the files that mert is using, cheers -Barry On Thursday 12 Jan 2012 09:36:27 Antonio Lagarda wrote: > Hi Barry, > > Thanks for your prompt response. > > When I grep for the undescore in run2.features.dat, I get lines like this > one: > > FEATURES_TXT_BEGIN_0 0 100 8 d_0 lm_0 w_0 tm_0 tm_1 tm_2 tm_3 tm_4 > FEATURES_TXT_END_0 > > You can find attached the beginning of run2.features.dat, with the > features of the first sentence. > > Thank you very much, > Antonio > > 2012/1/11 Barry Haddow <[email protected]>: > > Hi Antonio > > > > Looks like mert thinks you've got sparse features in your > > run2.features.dat file. > > > > Could you grep for the underscore ("_") character in this file? If that > > doesn't turn up anything then maybe you could let me look at your > > features file? If it's too big to post to the list then send it to me > > off-line, > > > > cheers - Barry > > > > On Wednesday 11 January 2012 17:26:39 Antonio Lagarda wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> I am using the last version of Moses (subversion). Everything seems to > >> go fine, until the Mert step. The first Mert iteration runs ok, but > >> when finishing the second iteration, I get this error: > >> > >> Exit code: 1 > >> ERROR: Failed to run '/usr/bin/mert -d 8 --scconfig case:true > >> --ffile run1.features.dat,run2.features.dat --scfile > >> run1.scores.dat,run2.scores.dat --ifile run2.init.opt -n 20'. at > >> /usr/lib/moses/bin/training/mert-moses.pl line 1278. > >> > >> When running only that instruction (mert -d 8 ...), the error is as > >> follows: > >> > >> ERROR: sparse features can only be trained with pairwise ranked > >> optimizer (PRO), not traditional MERT > >> > >> All the files needed by Mert at this point do exist and seem to be ok > >> (run1.features.dat, run2.features.dat, run1.scores.dat, > >> run2.scores.dat, run2.init.opt) > >> > >> Has anyone found this problem? > >> Do you know which Git commit (if any) solves it? > >> > >> Thank you in advance. > >> Best, > >> Antonio > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Moses-support mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/moses-support > > > > -- > > Barry Haddow > > University of Edinburgh > > +44 (0) 131 651 3173 > > > > -- > > The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in > > Scotland, with registration number SC005336. > _______________________________________________ Moses-support mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/moses-support
