Re: Merging 7.X into master??? + cleaning up branches

[Matt Post <po...@cs.jhu.edu>]

Whether to integrate neural stuff in Joshua is an interesting question. The research direction has been to develop fully neural systems that leave behind the phrase-based and hierarchical framework entirely. Doing this in Joshua would basically require a ground-up rewrite and is probably not worth the time. Moses has neural feature functions; for example, you can use a Nematus model as a rescore feature (though it breaks dynamic programming). This might be reasonable to implement as a project but it would be quite a bit of work and introduce GPU requirements that would raise the question of why you'd use Joshua if you had a GPU available. I think that it would be better to focus on low-resource scenarios and user-focused applications, instead.


> On Jun 29, 2017, at 12:35 PM, Tommaso Teofili <to...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Matt,
> 
> Il giorno gio 29 giu 2017 alle ore 05:21 Matt Post <po...@cs.jhu.edu> ha
> scritto:
> 
>> This is definitely a good idea. Many of these branches are dead and are
>> unlikely to contain much that can be merged in, and are therefore probably
>> best deleted. The plan for 7 was a big simplification of much of the guts,
>> but with the transition to neural approaches in the research community,
>> this is unlikely to be done unless it finds a new champion.
>> 
> 
> do you think we should look at NMT in the Joshua project ?
> Or is it more like you are more interested on NMT at the moment ?
> Or both ? :)
> 
> Other than that let's merge 7 to master and drop the remaining stuff,
> except that for the PR for JOSHUA-290 [1] which should be merged into 7
> branch.
> 
> Regards,
> Tommaso
> 
> [1] : https://github.com/apache/incubator-joshua/pull/71
> 
> 
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>>> On Jun 28, 2017, at 3:43 AM, Tommaso Teofili <to...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> +1 for both cleaning up branches *and* merging 7 branch into master.
>>> 
>>> Regarding branches and Git let me read through the links and I'll share
>> my
>>> opinion.
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> Tommaso
>>> 
>>> Il giorno mer 28 giu 2017 alle ore 06:41 Chris Mattmann <
>> mattmann@apache.org>
>>> ha scritto:
>>> 
>>>> Hey Team,
>>>> 
>>>> I recommend that Joshua consider adopting the Tika and/or Nutch
>>>> contribution
>>>> policy RE: branches and Git:
>>>> 
>>>> https://github.com/apache/tika/#contributing-via-github
>>>> https://github.com/apache/nutch/#contributing
>>>> 
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Chris
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On 6/27/17, 9:36 PM, "lewis john mcgibbney" <le...@apache.org> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>   Hi Folks,
>>>>   Two things...
>>>> 
>>>>      1. Currently the branches for Joshua are a bit of a mess... it
>>>> would be
>>>>      better if they were named after JIRA issues such that the mappings
>>>> back to
>>>>      some concrete development were explicit. Does anyone want to clean
>>>> these up?
>>>>      2. Now that 6.1-incubating is released and live, Is there any
>>>> desire to
>>>>      merge 7.X branch into master and continue development there? I was
>>>> not
>>>>      involved with the 7.X development but it looked like a significant
>>>> step
>>>>      forward... it would be a shame for that work to stagnate.
>>>> 
>>>>   Thanks,
>>>> 
>>>>   lewis
>>>> 
>>>>   --
>>>>   http://home.apache.org/~lewismc/
>>>>   @hectorMcSpector
>>>>   http://www.linkedin.com/in/lmcgibbney
>>>> 
>>>> 
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