Moses-support Digest, Vol 101, Issue 81

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Today's Topics:

1. Re: Unicode Issues when Using Compact Phrase Table, Binaries
vs. Own Build (Marcin Junczys-Dowmunt)


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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2015 11:11:46 +0200
From: Marcin Junczys-Dowmunt <junczys@amu.edu.pl>
Subject: Re: [Moses-support] Unicode Issues when Using Compact Phrase
Table, Binaries vs. Own Build
To: moses-support@mit.edu
Message-ID: <55191352.6090909@amu.edu.pl>
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Forgot to add that we use the compact phrase table and Moses on older
and newer Ubuntu version with Arabic, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Russian
in both directions and no problems. Those puny German umlauts should not
be a challenge. :)

W dniu 30.03.2015 o 11:08, Marcin Junczys-Dowmunt pisze:
> Hi,
> the phrase-table and as far as I know Moses in general are
> unicode-agnostic, as long as you use utf-8. Input is handled as raw
> byte sequences, most of the time there are numeric identifiers only.
> Sounds more like a couple of messed up systems on your side,
> especially the part where self-compiled systems work or don't work.
> Cannot give you much more insight, unfortunately.
> Best,
> Marcin
>
> W dniu 30.03.2015 o 10:53, "????????? ????? (Ventsislav Zhechev)" pisze:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I?m having this really weird Unicode issue when using compact phrase
>> tables that could be related to endianness somehow, but I?ve no idea how.
>> I compiled the training tools from v3 on my Mac and built a few
>> models using compact phrase (and reordering) tables and KenLM,
>> including (for simplicity) a recasing model for DE (download it from
>> https://autodesk.box.com/DE-Recaser). Things become strange when I
>> try to use the models, though:
>> 1. All works fine when I use the decoder binary I compiled myself on
>> the Mac (10.10.2, self-built Boost 1.57)
>> 2. Unicode input is not recognised when I use the binary from
>> http://www.statmt.org/moses/RELEASE-3.0/binaries/macosx-yosemite/ i.e. words
>> like ?f?r? or ?ausf?hrlich? are marked as UNK.
>> 3. Unicode input is not recognised when I use a binary I compiled
>> myself on Ubuntu 12.04.5 (self-built Boost 1.57)
>> 4. All works fine when I use the binary from
>> http://www.statmt.org/moses/RELEASE-3.0/binaries/linux-64bit/
>>
>> I tested the above with the queryPhraseTableMin tool (rather than the
>> decoder) and got the same results, which is what makes me think this
>> could be somehow related to binary incompatibility with the way the
>> phrase table is compacted. Haven?t investigated deeper than that, though.
>>
>>
>> Any clues?
>> One would say, just use the Linux binary then on Linux... However, I
>> have a number of CentOS/RHEL 5 and 6 boxes, where the pre-compiled
>> binary doesn?t work, as the system glibc is too old. So there I need
>> to compile Moses myself, but then Unicode isn?t recognised...
>>
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Ventzi
>>
>> ???????
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