are you rerunning tuning for each case? Or are you using exactly the same
moses.ini file for the with and with alignment experiments?

Hieu Hoang
http://statmt.org/hieu


On Fri, 24 Aug 2018 at 14:34, Ergun Bicici <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> Dear Moses maintainers,
>
> I discovered that the translations obtained differ when alignment flags 
> (--mark-unknown
> --unknown-word-prefix UNK --print-alignment-inf) are used. Comparison
> table is attached (en-ru and ru-en are being recomputed). We expect them to
> be the same since alignment flags only print additional information and
> they are not supposed to alter decoding. In both, the same EMS system was
> re-run with the alignment information flags or not.
>
>    - Average of the absolute difference is 0.0094 BLEU (about 1 BLEU
>    points).
>    - Average of the difference is 0.0051 BLEU (about 0.5 BLEU points,
>    results are better with alignment flags).
>
> 
>
> /opt/Programs/SMT/moses/mosesdecoder/bin/moses --version
>
> Moses code version (git tag or commit hash):
>   mmt-mvp-v0.12.1-2775-g65c75ff07-dirty
> Libraries used:
>      Boost  version 1.62.0
>
> git status
> On branch RELEASE-4.0
> Your branch is up to date with 'origin/RELEASE-4.0'.
>
>
> Note: Using alignment information to recase tokens was tried in [1] for
> en-fi and en-tr to claim positive results. We tried this method in all
> translation directions we considered as as can be seen in the align row,
> this only improves the performance for tr-en and en-tr and for tr-en Moses
> provides better translations without the alignment flags.
> [1]The JHU Machine Translation Systems for WMT 2016
> Shuoyang Ding, Kevin Duh, Huda Khayrallah, Philipp Koehn and Matt Post
> http://www.statmt.org/wmt16/pdf/W16-2310.pdf
>
>
> Best Regards,
> Ergun
>
> Ergun Biçici
> http://bicici.github.com/ <http://ergunbicici.blogspot.com/>
>
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