I did not claim that the paper does so. The weakness has been exposed. And the way it was exposed suggests that certain classes of phrase pairs contribute more to BLEU scores than others. We now have an empirical basis for exploring new avenues that exploit this observation.
I have no problem with papers being rejected. Clearly only a certain number can be published in any particular setting. What I take issue with is the en-masse denial that there is a problem with the system if it behaves in such a way with no LM + no pruning and/or tuning. I am happy that you seem to be the first person to acknowledge that this is undesirable behaviour. I feel that we are finally making some progress. Now if more people could acknowledge that their is a problem perhaps we could set about improving the situation. James ________________________________ From: Lane Schwartz <dowob...@gmail.com> Sent: Friday, June 19, 2015 6:10 PM To: Read, James C Cc: Philipp Koehn; Burger, John D.; moses-support@mit.edu Subject: Re: [Moses-support] Major bug found in Moses James, 1) Acknowledging that the search algorithm performs poorly with no LM, tuning or pruning despite the fact the search space clearly contains high quality translations Yes. We all acknowledge this. If you have a better technique, that's great. Show that it's better. Your paper does not do so. 2) to a public display of en-masse reluctance to acknowledge that such is an undesirable quality of the system Yes, this is undesirable. If you have a better technique, that's great. Show that it's better. Your paper does not do so. 3) to resorting to censorship not only in the literature but also on a public mailing list rather than acknowledge point 2. No one is trying to censor you in the literature. You wrote a paper that got rejected. Lots of papers get rejected. Lots of GOOD papers get rejected. The fact that yours got rejected does not mean that you're being censored. No one is trying to censor you on this list. We are simply requesting that you conduct yourself like a well-mannered adult engaged in scientific research. By the way, your frequent mentions of investors are very much a non sequitur. You may be looking for investors, and that's fine if you are. You may want to keep in mind that not everyone is. Many of us are interested in this as a field of scientific enquiry. Lane
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