Is it possible to translate with moses from English to any Foreign language?

because I tried using moses, and at “Sanity Check Trained Model” step, the result of best translation always UNK (English-Foreign), but if I translate from Foreign-English, it’s work fine

I modified Train Phrase Model into:
nohup nice
tools/moses-scripts/scripts-YYYYMMDD-HHMM/training/train-factored-phrase-model.perl -scripts-root-dir tools/moses-scripts/scripts-YYYYMMDD-HHMM/ -root-dir
work -corpus work/corpus/news-commentary.lowercased -e en -f id -alignment grow-diag-final-and -reordering msd-bidirectional-fe -lm
0:3:/home/jschroe1/demo/work/lm/news-commentary.lm >&
work/training.out &

the original was:
nohup nice tools/moses-scripts/scripts-YYYYMMDD-HHMM/training/train-factored-phrase-model.perl -scripts-root-dir tools/moses-scripts/scripts-YYYYMMDD-HHMM/ -root-dir work -corpus work/corpus/news-commentary.lowercased -f fr -e en -alignment grow-diag-final-and -reordering msd-bidirectional-fe -lm 0:3:/home/jschroe1/demo/work/lm/news-commentary.lm >& work/training.out &

I’ve build language model for my foreign language, not English-language-model. Is there anything I missed here?

Laurent

Re:[Moses-support] Translation from English to Foreign Language

Dear Laurentia,

ss you can read somewhere in the moses manual
-the parameter “-f” tells you which is the source language
-the parameter “-e” tells you which is the target language

The names “-f” and “-e” do not relate with French and English specifically, but to generic languages

assuming that your parallel corpus have the suffixes “.fr” and “.en” for French and English respectively
the right command line to train an English-to-French system is

nohup nice tools/moses-scripts/scripts-YYYYMMDD-HHMM/training/train-factored-phrase-model.perl -scripts-root-dir tools/moses-scripts/scripts-YYYYMMDD-HHMM/ -root-dir work -corpus work/corpus/news-commentary.lowercased -f en -e fr -alignment grow-diag-final-and -reordering msd-bidirectional-fe -lm 0:3:/home/jschroe1/demo/work/lm/news-commentary.lm >& work/training.out &

Your modified command does not modify actually anything, but the source language which you set to “id”. Is “id” the suffix of your source language?

best regards,

Re:[Moses-support] Translation from English to Foreign Language

Thx nicola

“id” is the suffix for my target language

my bad, I always think that -f and -e refers to “French” and “English” and I never noted that when I read the manual before

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