Dear Phi,

Thanks for the note on the weights and the prob vs log prob!

Regards,
Nat

On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 5:17 AM, Philipp Koehn <p...@jhu.edu> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> the numbers in the (text) phrase table are raw probability, but Moses
> internally uses log-probabilites, so the weights are used as:
>
>    weight * log(phrase-table-prob)
>
> which is equivalent to
>
>    log( phrase-table-prob ^ weight)
>
> -phi
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 5:59 AM, Nat Gillin <nat.gil...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear Moses community,
>>
>> One more question on the numbers in the phrase-table and moses.ini.
>>
>> Assuming that the numbers in the phrase-table are probabilities (not yet
>> log) If i were to multiply the weights from moses.ini to the phrase-table,
>> would it be:
>>
>> log(weight * phrase-tabe-prob)
>>
>>
>> or
>>
>> weight * log(phrase-table-prob)
>>
>>
>>
>> Considering that the decoder later do an argmax, i guess the value
>> doesn't really matter. But it'll be good to know if its log after
>> multiplying the weights or weights multiplied by the log.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Nat
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 4:48 PM, Nat Gillin <nat.gil...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear Moses community,
>>>
>>> After training the model with train-model.pl, I have got several files
>>> from the model.
>>>
>>> Are the numbers in the phrase-table.gz probabilities or log prob? They
>>> look like probabiltiites (ranging from 0-1), but I would like to confirm
>>> it. Is that also the same for the 
>>> reordering-table.wbe-msd-bidirectional-fe.gz
>>> ?
>>>
>>> And as for the weights in moses.ini after MERT, are they also raw
>>> probabilities or log probabilities?
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance for the information!
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Nat
>>>
>>
>>
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