Hi,

these default scores were added fairly recently, so they do not work
for version 2.0.

-phi

On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 7:53 AM, Tomas Fulajtar <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
>
> Thanks for an excellent explanation. Does this “default-scores” parameter
> work in 2.x release as well?
>
>
>
> Tomas
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> From: Philipp Koehn [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Thursday, May 7, 2015 3:22 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Moses-support] Multiple Translation Tables and Back-off Models
> in Moses
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
>
>
> I added a section to the Moses documentation on how to deal with this
> situation:
>
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> http://www.statmt.org/moses/?n=Advanced.Models#ntoc5
>
>
>
> -phi
>
> Caveat: Multiple Translation Tables and Lexicalized Reordering You may
> specify any number of lexicalized reordering models. Each of them will score
> any translation option, no matter where it comes from. If a lexicalized
> reordering table does not have an entry for a translation options, it will
> not assign any score to it. In other words, such a translation option is
> given the probability 1 no matter how it is reordered. This may not be the
> way you want to handle it.
>
> For instance, if you have an "in-domain" translation table and an
> out-of-domain translation table, you can also provide an in-domain
> reordering table and anout-of-domain reordering table. If a phrase pair
> occurs in both translation tables, it will be scored by both reordering
> tables. However, if a phrase pairs occurs only in one of the phrase tables
> (and hence reordering tables), it will be only score by one of them and get
> a free ride with the other. this will have the undesirable effect of
> discouraging phrase pairs that occur in both tables.
>
> To avoid this, you can add default scores to the reordering table:
>
>  LexicalReordering name=LexicalReordering0 num-features=6
> type=wbe-msd-bidirectional-fe-allff [...]
> default-scores=0.5,0.3,0.2,0.5,0.3,0.2
>
>  LexicalReordering name=LexicalReordering1 num-features=6
> type=wbe-msd-bidirectional-fe-allff [...]
> default-scores=0.5,0.3,0.2,0.5,0.3,0.2
>
>
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> On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 3:00 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>
>
> I am studying moses to do some research abou SMT. I have read advanced
> models in moses at the website
> http://www.statmt.org/moses/?n=Advanced.Models#ntoc5 . I have some questions
> about the introduction of "Multiple Translation Tables and Back-off Models".
>
>
>
> From the website, I know that moses allows the use of multiple translation
> tables. But the lexicalized reordering model is not mentioned in the
> introduction of "Multiple Translation Tables and Back-off Models". So, could
> I use two translation tables, which I denote translation table1 and
> translation table2 respectively, and one lexicalized reordering table
> according to the introduction of "Multiple Translation Tables and Back-off
> Models"? The phrase pairs in reordering table is the same with translation
> table1, but not the same with translation table2.
>
>
>
> When I use multiple translation tables and only one reordering table, a
> phrase pair may exist in only one translation table and don't exist in the
> reordering model, how to calculate the probability of lexicalized reordering
> model?
>
>
>
> I'm sorry for bothering you. Thanks and Best Regards,
>
>
>
> Zhenxin
>
>
>
>
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