[logon] HandOn release schedule

[Berthold Crysmann]

On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 15:14 +0100, Stephan Oepen wrote:
> > 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.
> 

And 1 Dec is such a lovely release date;-) 

> > 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

Does :ascore get set now for DELPH-IN parsers? How do I activate it?
My recent parsing profiles do not contain that feature. 


> > (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 ...
> 
I reckon training of the reranker  only makes sense once the transfer
grammar has reached a certain size, doesn't it?


B
 

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