As far as I understand, if the phrase table is ignored, the reordering model is ignored too. Maybe someone like Hieu can answer this specific point more precisely.
2014-05-01 11:44 GMT+02:00 Tom Hoar <[email protected]>: > Yes, the link's descriptions are good explanations of the differences > between "exclusive", "inclusive", constraint", ignore" and "pass-through." > All descriptions, however, refer to the "phrase table" (t-table), which to > my understanding does not include the distortion table. For example, > "exclusive" says, "Any phrases from the phrase table that overlap with that > span are ignored." There is no information about the effects of the > reordering/distortion table. > > > > > On 05/01/2014 02:33 PM, Christophe Servan wrote: > > Hi Tom, > As far as I understand there are diffrent ways to use it very well > explained there: > http://www.statmt.org/moses/?n=Moses.AdvancedFeatures#ntoc11 > Now ansering your questions, > > I have two questions about how the -xml-input entries in the markup tag >> work. >> >> 1. Are the entries applied before the distortion table with the >> distortion table affecting the result, or are the entries applied as a net >> effect after the distortion table? >> >> To me, it is another kind of decoding process, especially when the > switch and the option "exclusive" are used. They seem to bypass completely > the decoding process which uses the phrase-table and the distortion model. > If you want to simply add a new translation hypothesis which does not > already exist in your phrase table, use the "inclusive" option instead of > "exclusive". Both processes will be use at the same time. > But you will have no guaranty that your translation hypothesis, proposed > with the xml-markup switch, is the one chosen by the decoder. > As far as I know, the probability you gave in the xml tag correspond > jointly to all the features and weights associated to the hypothesis. > >> >> 1. Do the entries override or supplement the weightings in the loaded >> SMT model's t-table/distortion table combination? >> >> As I said, as far as I know, the exclusive mode, simply override the > phrase-table and the distortion model, if you still want use them, you can > use the mode "inclusive" for example. > > Best, > > Christophe > > > _______________________________________________ > 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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