Hi Rob I haven't used confusion network input but I do know about the implementation of the input weights (it's added as an extra weight to the weight table).
If you can't figure out how to fix it, please send me a small sample model to replicate the problem and I'll take a look at it. On 02/04/2013 20:42, Rob Voigt wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to use confusion networks with Moses - I can decode with them > successfully, manually inputting an insertion weight (-weight-i), but am > running into trouble doing MERT on a model that uses confusion networks. > > Running this command, with weight-i specified in the moses.ini file: > nohup nice ~/mosesdecoder/scripts/training/mert-moses.pl tune.zh tune.en > ~/mosesdecoder/bin/moses moses.ini --decoder-flags="-threads 8 -inputtype 1 > -drop-unknown" --inputtype 1 --mertdir ~/mosesdecoder/bin/ >& CN_mert.out > > I get through one iteration of training, but then get the following error > during decoding on the second iteration of MERT: > ERROR:You specified 6 input weights (weight-i), but you specified 1 link > parameters (link-param-count)! > > Looking at the run1.moses.ini file, it looks like five additional weight-i > values have been added. > > Things I've tried to fix this include: > > - Specifying 6 link parameters as a decoder flag to match - this dies on the > first iteration of MERT with this error: > ERROR:You specified 1 input weights (weight-i), but you specified 6 link > parameters (link-param-count)! > > - Putting 6 weight-i parameters in the ini file and specifying 6 link > parameters as a decoder flag - this dies on the second iteration, with this > error: > ERROR:You specified 11 input weights (weight-i), but you specified 6 link > parameters (link-param-count)! > > So it seems like the script is inserting 5 additional weight-i parameters > after the first iteration, that make it out of sync with the link-param-count. > > How does one use MERT if the input is a confusion network? Is it possible? > > Thanks very much for your time! > > -Rob > _______________________________________________ > 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
