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
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