Re: [joshua-support] Problems in translation while working on a server

[Matt Post]

ZMERT chokes in the presence of old temporary files. Delete all the *.temp.* files in the tune/1/ directory and rerun (really, just wipe out tune/1 entirely).

On Jan 18, 2013, at 12:19 PM, bibek....@gmail.com wrote:

Hi.
This is the error from the log file while tuning phase has completed the first iteration.
tmpDirPrefix: tune/1/ZMERT.
--- Starting Z-MERT iteration #2 @ Sat Jan 19 07:16:10 IST 2013 ---
Redecoding using weight vector {1.0, 0.4917277741095871, 0.5608501200973811, -0.007388916038556701, 0.16713920186664402, -0.5089596956683354, 0.385020111605774, 0.2584773262629926, -1.471720023462057, -82.51730319198775}
Running external decoder...
...finished decoding @ Sat Jan 19 07:19:01 IST 2013
Reading candidate translations from iterations 1-2
(and computing BLEU sufficient statistics for previously unseen candidates)
  Progress:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string: "||||||"
    at java.lang.NumberFormatException.forInputString(NumberFormatException.java:65)
    at java.lang.Integer.parseInt(Integer.java:481)
    at java.lang.Integer.parseInt(Integer.java:514)
    at joshua.zmert.MertCore.run_single_iteration(MertCore.java:1114)
    at joshua.zmert.MertCore.main(MertCore.java:3203)
Z-MERT exiting prematurely (MertCore returned 1)...

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[Matt Post]

Alignment By Agreement

Percy Liang, Ben Taskar, Dan Klein

NAACL 2006

Tailoring Word Alignments to Syntactic Machine Translation

John DeNero, Dan Klein

ACL, 2007

On Jan 19, 2013, at 1:51 AM, bibek....@gmail.com wrote:

thanks that works. I wanted to know the paper from which berkeley aligner drew its attention.

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