Thanks Anoop, for the question. I too have the same doubt as yours.

So to repeate, your question was:
"With *either*  option, all the constituent phrases of a target hypothesis
come from a single table, but different hypothesis can use different
tables. Each hypothesis is scored using one table only. I did not
understand the* " additional options are collected from the other tables" *bit
in the documentation. "

So, if each hypothesis is scored using a single table then why it is said
that "additional options are collected from other tables". It sounds
somewhat contradicting or maybe I am missing something.

Please let us know if anybody knows what it mean.

Thanks a lot.


On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 4:52 AM, Anoop (അനൂപ്) <[email protected]
> wrote:

> Thanks for your inputs. I plan to compare these methods, and will share
> the results on the group.
>
> Regards,
> Anoop
>
> On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 3:38 AM, Michael Denkowski <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi Anoop,
>>
>> Confirming that your reading of "union" is in fact how it works.  If you
>> want each phrase to be scored by all tables without having to worry about
>> making sure every phrase is in every table, I you can use
>> PhraseDictionaryGroup with default-average-others=true.  This multiplies
>> the size of the phrase feature set by the number of models, so I recommend
>> running mer-moses.pl with --batch-mira.
>>
>> Best,
>> Michael
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 1:08 PM, Philipp Koehn <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> that sounds right.
>>>
>>> The "union" option is fairly new, developed by Michael Denkowski.
>>> I am not aware of any empirical study of the different methods,
>>> so I'd be curious to see what you find.
>>>
>>> -phi
>>>
>>> On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 1:35 AM, Anoop (അനൂപ്) <
>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I am trying to understand the multiple decoding paths feature in Moses.
>>>>
>>>> The documentation (http://www.statmt.org/moses/?n=Advanced.Models#ntoc7)
>>>> describes 3 methods: both, either and union
>>>>
>>>> The following is my understanding of the options. Please let me know if
>>>> it is correct:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>    - With *both* option, the constituent phrases of the target
>>>>    hypothesis come from both tables (since they are shared) and are scored
>>>>    with both the tables.
>>>>    - With *either*  option, all the constituent phrases of a target
>>>>    hypothesis come from a single table, but different hypothesis can use
>>>>    different tables. Each hypothesis is scored using one table only. I did 
>>>> not
>>>>    understand the " additional options are collected from the other tables"
>>>>    bit in the documentation.
>>>>    - With *union* option, the constituent phrases of a target
>>>>    hypothesis come from different tables and are scored using scores from 
>>>> all
>>>>    the tables. Use 0 if the option doesn't appear in some table, unless the
>>>>    *default-average-others=true* option is used.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Anoop.
>>>>
>>>> --
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>>>> mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors
>>>> and to retrace my steps.
>>>>
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