Yes, I am thinking of a new feature function based on word vectors.
Thank you for your suggestion about the generation step, I'll look into it,
maybe I'll find a way.

I will also try to create a feature function directly.

Thanks again!

Best,

Hubert
On Jul 2, 2014 11:02 PM, "Philipp Koehn" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> it would be better to include a word vector obtained by word2vec or other
> means
> as a single factor, and generate them with a generation step to avoid
> filling
> up the phrase table with redundant information. Unfortunately, there is no
> source side generation step, which may be a useful addition to the factored
> model.
>
> Of course, the question is what to do with these vectors. I assume that
> you have
> a new feature function in mind.
>
> -phi
>
> On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 5:04 AM, Hubert Soyer
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have checked the mailing list archive for this question but couldn't
> > find anything.
> > I'd be surprised if this question has not been asked yet, if it has,
> > I'd be happy if you could point me to the corresponding mails.
> >
> > Recently, word representations induced by neural networks have gained
> > a lot of momentum.
> > Particularly often cited in this context is:
> > http://code.google.com/p/word2vec/
> >
> > Those vector word representations are vectors that carry some semantic
> > meaning in them, i.e. semantically similar words have similar vectors
> > (small distances to each other).
> >
> > I have been wondering about the best way to incorporate them in Moses.
> >
> > One solution would be to incorporate them as factors in a factored model:
> >
> > http://www.statmt.org/moses/?n=Moses.FactoredTutorial
> >
> > It seems to me that I would have to treat each dimension of each word
> > vector as a separate factor which would lead to a lot of factors.
> > Usual dimensionalities of those word vectors are 200 or more.
> >
> > Is treating each dimension as a factor the best way to incorporate
> > those vectors or is there anything better I can do?
> > I don't have to stick to factors, if there is another way.
> >
> > Thank you in advance!
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > Hubert
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