Thanks, Phil. I had forgotten about the "distinct" option, so this was
very helpful, even if it's a bit slow. It's alright for us.

On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 6:56 PM, Philip Williams
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Chris,
>
> if you add the argument "distinct" to the -n-best-list option then that
> should have the same effect, albeit far less efficiently (internally,
> Moses simply generates a longer list and then filters it).
>
> I'm guessing you already knew about that option though.  If that's too
> slow for what you're doing then give me a day or two and I'll find some
> time to implement the Huang et al. trick.  Clearly, that's what we
> should be doing anyway.
>
> Oh wait, are you talking about phrase-based or syntax-based?  For
> phrase-based we don't -- but obviously could -- use Huang and Chiang's
> (2005) algorithm for k-best extraction.  As things stand, doing the
> Huang et al. unique trick in Moses would involve more effort to
> implement for phrase-based than for syntax-based.
>
> Phil
>
> On 11 Mar 2015, at 20:03, Chris Dyer <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi all, can anyone tell me if moses can be configured to generate
>> "unique" k-best lists using the Huang et al. (2006) dynamic
>> programming algorithm (Section 5.2 of
>> http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~lhuang3/amta06-sdtedl.pdf)?
>> Thanks--
>> Chris
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