good idea.

it would also be interesting to constrain a weight based on another weight.
eg, the weights of phrase-table A = weights of phrase-table B

On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 3:27 AM, Thomas Schoenemann <
[email protected]> wrote:

> 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
>
>   ------------------------------
> *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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