Hi,

Yes, it is quite straight foward to run tuning multiple times.  In
experiment.perl you have to superficially change the tuning settings, for
indtance by adding onternal spaces.

-phi
On Jan 21, 2013 11:02 AM, "Cuong Hoang" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi all,
> Is it possible to run the tuning process many consecutive times (the next
> one use the previous tuning results as the start up moses.ini) to obtain a
> better model's weights? (at least when we test on the dev set)?
> Tks.
>
> On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 11:57 PM, Eleftherios Avramidis <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>>  Hi, I had written down this, when I worked with EMS (experiment.perl)
>> some years ago. I am not sure if it is still applicable, but you can check:
>>
>>
>>    1. If some mert runs have happened (that may meen a couple of days!)
>>    you have to let tuning resume the broken process. Open the file
>>    steps/TUNING_tune.*num* by using a text editor. Find the line which
>>    starts with executing mert-moses.pl . There are two parameters you
>>    can add to resume the broken tuning:
>>       1. If the error has occurred during decoding, then just add the
>>       parameter --continue.
>>       2. If a decoding set has successfully happened, and mert crashed
>>       during optimization that happens after that, then add the parameter 
>> --continue
>>       --skip decoder which will save you some time. That's optional,
>>       though.
>>     2. Save the file and execute the tuning step, (preferably in
>>    cluster), separately: nice sh steps/TUNING_tune.*num*
>>    3. Once tuning has completed succesfully, delete steps/TUNING_tune.*
>>    num*.STDERR and let experiment.perl go on experiment.perl -continue
>>    -config steps/config.*num*
>>
>> best
>> Lefteris
>>
>>
>> On 21/01/13 16:42, Arezki Sadoune wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> Does anyone know if it is possible to continue or resume a tuning process
>> that was accidentally interrupted. ****
>>
>>
>>
>> To be more concrete, I lost a MERT tuning process after four weeks of
>> running because of an unintended system reboot.
>>
>> I recovered the weights from the last run file  *( run13.moses.ini)* but
>> the translation system I got was not satisfactory.
>>
>> I think that the translation system will be better if the runing of MERT
>> goes to completion
>>
>> Thank you
>>
>>
>>
>> Arezki
>>
>>
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