Hi!
That's also the impression I got from a more thorough code review today. I will
work on implementing a positivity constraint, without changing the default
behaviour (in my own branch).
Best,
Thomas
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Von: Barry Haddow <[email protected]>
An: Thomas Schoenemann <[email protected]>
Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Gesendet: 19:00 Montag, 23.Januar 2012
Betreff: Re: [Moses-support] Parameter ranges in MERT
Hi Thomas
As far as I recall, the parameter ranges were used for the random restarts.
These are sampled uniformly from the given range.
cheers - Barry
Quoting Thomas Schoenemann <[email protected]> on Mon, 23 Jan 2012
09:42:38 +0000 (GMT):
> Hi everyone,
>
> can anyone tell me if the current MERT implementation should respect
> parameter ranges? It does require to input them, but to my knowledge these
> ranges are ignored.
>
>
> Except for the word penalty I think all weights should be positive. Yet, I
> often get negative ones from MERT, and they are not always corrected in later
> iterations.
>
> Cheers,
> Thomas (currently University of Düsseldorf, Germany)
>
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