Thank you all (specially for the paper Chris mentioned). I agree with you Barry. But as Germán said, when optimizer is not involved in experiments (e.g. evaluating decoder modifications), the tool can be very useful. Am I missing something?
Cheers, SD -- *NRC Center for Language* On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 10:42 PM, Tom Hoar < [email protected]> wrote: > ** > > The question is, "significance" to what? Physics and other hard sciences > aren't the same as a social science with applied technology. > > I think until someone can define a better significance test for human > authorship of both original content and translation, I agree with Barry. > It's better to keep such evaluations separate projects. > > Tom > > > > On 2013-01-24 21:32, Barry Haddow wrote: > > Hi Saeed > > In my experience, significance tests are often badly applied or > interpreted, so I don't get good feelings when I read an MT paper *with* > significance tests. > > I think having such a tool in Moses would make things worse. I don't > want to have to read/review papers which claim that "Moses said it was > significant" ... > > cheers - Barry > > On 24/01/13 10:11, saeed smith wrote: > > Hi, Just a suggestion: IMHO, adding a significance test implementation to > Moses will help users to report such tests. I do not get good feelings when > I read a paper with no statistical significance tests. Cheers, SD -- /NRC > Center for Language/ _______________________________________________ > Moses-support mailing list [email protected] > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/moses-support > > -- > The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in > Scotland, with registration number SC005336. > > _______________________________________________ > Moses-support mailing > [email protected]http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/moses-support > > > _______________________________________________ > Moses-support mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/moses-support > >
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