All I know is that it puts words into classes. I guess that's to reduce data sparsity. There's a parameter that defines the number of classes but noone has looked into that either.
I suppose you can use other class labels such as pos tags but I haven't heard anyone do that People usually try and replace Giza++ entirely rather tha just bits of it Hieu Sent from my flying horse On 6 Jun 2012, at 10:33 AM, Marcin Junczys-Dowmunt <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > I am training another model and started wondering about the mkcls tool > (again). Does anyone know if there have been any attempts to use > something different and to what result? It's a strange little tool, > everyone uses it, but probably hardly anyone knows what it exactly does > and why it does what it does :) apart from knowying that Models 3-5 need > its output. > > Best, > Marcin > _______________________________________________ > Moses-support mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/moses-support _______________________________________________ Moses-support mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/moses-support
