Hi,
Can we regard this as a bug in Moses? Any program should be able to
take relative paths. Preferably by never using cd or chdir. But
otherwise absolutizing as necessary.
Kenneth
On 05/21/14 05:47, Jorg Tiedemann wrote:
>
> oh man, now I feel stupid. of course, I used a relative path for the
> workdir and mert didn't like.
> I thought I wouldn't make this mistake anymore …
> Thanks for helping!
>
> Jörg
>
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> On May 21, 2014, at 12:12 PM, Hieu Hoang wrote:
>
>> hi jorg
>>
>> are you using relative paths? use absolute paths if you are.
>>
>> this is my tree-to-string mert command i ran last week, if it helps. I
>> use the EMS to run it so i don't usually look at the details
>>
>> /home/s0565741/workspace/github/mosesdecoder.hieu/scripts/training/mert-moses.pl
>> <http://mert-moses.pl/>
>>
>> /home/s0565741/workspace/experiment/europarl/en-fr-mixed/tuning/input.lc.7
>>
>>
>> /home/s0565741/workspace/experiment/europarl/en-fr-mixed/tuning/reference.lc.7
>>
>> /home/s0565741/workspace/github/mosesdecoder.hieu/bin/moses_chart
>>
>> /home/s0565741/workspace/experiment/europarl/en-fr-mixed/tuning/moses.filtered.ini.7
>> --nbest 100
>> --working-dir
>> /home/s0565741/workspace/experiment/europarl/en-fr-mixed/tuning/tmp.7
>> --decoder-flags "-threads 8 -v 0 "
>> --rootdir
>> /home/s0565741/workspace/github/mosesdecoder.hieu/scripts
>> -mertdir /home/s0565741/workspace/github/mosesdecoder.hieu/bin
>> -threads 10
>> --no-filter-phrase-table
>> --inputtype 3
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 20 May 2014 15:40, Jorg Tiedemann <[email protected]
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>
>>
>> I'm struggling a bit with tuning my tree-based models. I try to
>> run MERT on a syntax-to-string model but I have problems setting
>> the flags for mert-moses.pl <http://mert-moses.pl/> correctly. Now
>> I tried something like
>>
>> mert-moses.pl <http://mert-moses.pl/> newstest2011.trees.es
>> <http://newstest2011.trees.es/> newstest2011.tok.true.fr
>> <http://newstest2011.tok.true.fr/> moses_chart
>> es-fr/model/moses.ini \
>> --mertdir /path/to/mosesdecoder/bin \
>> --nbest 100 \
>> --working-dir es-fr/tuning \
>> --no-filter-phrase-table \
>> --inputtype 3 \
>> --rootdir /path/to/mosesdecoder/scripts
>>
>> but after translating the devset in the first iteration my process
>> stops with
>> Couldn't open es-fr/tuning/extractor.sh for writing: file or
>> directory does not exist
>>
>> The directory exists and the n-best list looks fine. Is there yet
>> another flag that I have to add to the mert-moses call?
>>
>> By the way, it took me some time to figure out that I have to set
>> inputtype to 3 to make the system accept parsed input. Maybe
>> someone could add this to the documentation (if it is correct like
>> this anyway).
>>
>> ok. done
>> http://www.statmt.org/moses/?n=FactoredTraining.Tuning
>>
>>
>> Another question: What would be the correct call to make
>> mert-moses to filter the model before running? It doesn't work to add
>> '-Hierarchical' to the filtercmd as mert-moses then complains that
>> the command is not found on the system (it doesn't remove flags
>> before checking for existence). Or is it better to binarize the
>> rule-tables anyway?
>>
>> i use the EMS, which filters and binarize the phrase table before tuning
>>
>>
>> Thanks for your help!
>>
>> Jörg
>>
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>> --
>> Hieu Hoang
>> Research Associate
>> University of Edinburgh
>> http://www.hoang.co.uk/hieu
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