As the title of this thread makes clear the purpose of reporting the bug was not to invite a discussion about conclusions made in my draft paper. Clearly a community that builds its career around research in SMT is unlikely to agree with those kinds of conclusions. The purpose was to report the flaw in the default behaviour of Moses in the hope that we could all agree that something ought to be done about it.
So far you seem to be the only one who has come even close to acknowledging that there is a problem with Moses default behaviour. James ________________________________ From: Lane Schwartz <dowob...@gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2015 4:43 PM To: Read, James C Cc: Rico Sennrich; moses-support@mit.edu Subject: Re: [Moses-support] Major bug found in Moses On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 8:11 AM, Read, James C <jcr...@essex.ac.uk<mailto:jcr...@essex.ac.uk>> wrote: Other than that it seems painfully clear that the point I meant to make has not been understood entirely. If the default behaviour produces BLEU scores considerably lower than merely selecting the most likely translation of each phrase then evidently there is something very wrong with the default behaviour. If we cannot agree on something as obvious as that then I really can't see this discussion making any productive progress. James, I understand your point. I think that the others who have responded also understand your point. We simply disagree with your conclusion. I encourage you to consider the possibility that if the many experts in this field who have responded all think that your conclusion is flawed, then there might be something to that. I will agree, though, that this is a good time to conclude this discussion. Sincerely, Lane Schwartz
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