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dtrain
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Build & run
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build ..
<pre>
git clone git://github.com/qlt/cdec-dtrain.git
cd cdec-dtrain
autoreconf -if[v]
./configure [--disable-gtest]
make
</pre>
and run:
<pre>
cd dtrain/hstreaming/
(edit ini files)
edit the vars in hadoop-streaming-job.sh ($ID, $IN and $OUT)
./hadoop-streaming-job.sh
</pre>
Ideas
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* *MULTIPARTITE* ranking (1 vs rest, cluster model/score)
* *REMEMBER* sampled translations (merge kbest lists)
* *SELECT* iteration with highest real BLEU on devtest?
* *GENERATED* data? (perfect translation always in kbest)
* *CACHE* ngrams for scoring
* hadoop *PIPES* imlementation
* *ITERATION* variants (shuffle resulting weights, re-iterate)
* *MORE THAN ONE* reference for BLEU?
* *RANDOM RESTARTS* or directions
* use separate *TEST SET* for each shard
* *REDUCE* training set (50k?)
* *SYNTAX* features (CD)
Uncertain, known bugs, problems
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* cdec kbest vs 1best (no -k param), rescoring (ref?)? => ok(?)
* no sparse vector in decoder => ok/fixed
* PhraseModel features, mapping?
* flex scanner jams on bad input, we could skip that
* input/grammar caching (strings -> WordIDs)
* look at forest sampling...
* devtest loo or not? why loo grammars larger? (sort psgs | uniq -> grammar)
FIXME, todo
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* merge dtrain part-X files, for better blocks
* mapred count shard sents
* 250 forest sampling is real bad, bug?
* metric reporter of bleu for each shard
* kenlm not portable (i7-2620M vs Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5620 @ 2.40GHz)
* mapred chaining? hamake?
Data
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<pre>
nc-v6.de-en peg
nc-v6.de-en.loo peg
nc-v6.de-en.giza.loo peg
nc-v6.de-en.symgiza.loo peg
nv-v6.de-en.cs peg
nc-v6.de-en.cs.loo peg
--
ep-v6.de-en.cs pe
ep-v6.de-en.cs.loo p
a: alignment:, p: prep, e: extract,
g: grammar, d: dtrain
</pre>
Experiments
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[grammar stats
oov on dev/devtest/test
size
#rules (uniq)
time for building
ep: 1.5 days on 278 slots (30 nodes)
nc: ~2 hours ^^^
lm stats
oov on dev/devtest/test
perplex on train/dev/devtest/test]
[0]
which word alignment?
berkeleyaligner
giza++ as of Sep 24 2011, mgizapp 0.6.3
--symgiza as of Oct 1 2011--
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NON LOO
(symgiza unreliable)
randomly sample 100 from train with loo
run dtrain for 100 iterations
w/o all other feats (lm, wp, ...) +Glue
measure ibm bleu on exact same sents
[1]
lm?
3-4-5
open
unk
nounk (-100 for unk)
--
lm oov weight pos?
no tuning, -100 prob for unk EXPECT: nounk
tuning with dtrain EXPECT: open
[2]
cs?
'default' weights
[3]
loo vs non-loo
'jackknifing'
generalization (determ.!) on dev, test on devtest
[4]
stability
all with default params
mira: 100
pro: 100
vest: 100
dtrain: 100
[undecided]
pro metaparam
(max) iter
regularization
???
mira metaparam
(max) iter: 10 (nc???) vs 15 (ep???)
features to try
NgramFeatures -> target side ngrams
RuleIdentityFeatures
RuleNgramFeatures -> source side ngrams from rule
RuleShape -> relative orientation of X's and terminals
SpanFeatures -> http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~cdyer/wmt11-sysdesc.pdf
ArityPenalty -> Arity=0 Arity=1 and Arity=2
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