[logon] HandOn release schedule

[Stephan Oepen]

> I wouldn't say no to another round.

yes, i suspected that much.  which developer wouldn't :-)?  the gate is
open again (i think, let me know if SVN access control does not work as
i think it should).  i will finally lock the HandOn release on 24-nov,
and then ask everyone to retrieve the final snapshot and re-test.

> BTW, one thing we would like to do is change the model weights for jaen.
> Locally, we change them in .tsdbrc.    I am not sure which script they
> need to be put in to work: I guess they are referenced by the transfer
> engine itself (so can go in mt.lsp) but also the controller (thus in
> ja2en.lsp)?  Can you advise us here?

  [...]

> (setf *mt-analysis-weight* 0.2)  ; jacy
> (setf *mt-transfer-weight* 0.2)  ; mrs.blm
> (setf *mt-realization-weight* 0.1) ; Erik
> (setf *mt-lm-weight* 0.5) ; bnc.blm
> (setf *mt-distortion-weight* 0.0) ;  who knows?
> (setf *mt-lfn-weight* 0.0) ; we aren't norwegian-english
> (setf *mt-lnf-weight* 0.0) ; or visa-versa

these are the (naive) re-ranker parameters, i.e. get used at the point
when fan-out (for one input) is complete.  `ja2en.lisp' is the proper
place to set these, i.e. the JaEn [incr tsdb()] controller process.  i
have checked the values above into SVN just now.

i believe the LFN weights are quite effective for NoEN, so you might
consider training GIZA++ word-to-word models on your language pair at
some point.  i suspect you have all the pieces readily available ...

                                                       cheers  -  oe

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