From ee4f3c5581e43510d98de1274c6c1c2984c87faf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: armatthews <armatthe@cmu.edu>
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2016 04:03:35 -0500
Subject: bug fixes when training with WER

---
 mteval/ns_wer.cc | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

(limited to 'mteval')

diff --git a/mteval/ns_wer.cc b/mteval/ns_wer.cc
index f9b2bbbb..057ad49e 100644
--- a/mteval/ns_wer.cc
+++ b/mteval/ns_wer.cc
@@ -18,10 +18,10 @@ void WERMetric::ComputeSufficientStatistics(const std::vector<WordID>& hyp,
                                             const std::vector<std::vector<WordID> >& refs,
                                             SufficientStats* out) const {
   out->fields.resize(kNUMFIELDS);
-  float best_score = hyp.size();
+  float best_score = 0;
   for (size_t i = 0; i < refs.size(); ++i) {
     float score = cdec::LevenshteinDistance(hyp, refs[i]);
-    if (score < best_score) {
+    if (score < best_score || i == 0) {
       out->fields[kEDITDISTANCE] = score;
       out->fields[kCHARCOUNT] = refs[i].size();
       best_score = score;
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