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<p class=MsoNormal>Hi<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>I'm trying to prevent the merging of sausage (i.e. confusion
network) edges. I thought the option "-no-merge" might work e.g. I
was hoping to see two edges labelled "hello" in the following sausage
but there is just one:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>-bash-3.2$ echo -e "-5 -1 2 hello world\n-5 -2 2 hello
mould" |nbest-lattice -use-mesh -nbest - -write - -no-merge<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>hello world<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>name -<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>numaligns 2<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>posterior 1<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>align 0 hello 1<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>align 1 world 0.909091 mould 0.0909091<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>I get the same result whether I use the
"-no-merge" option or not. Maybe I've got the wrong end of the stick
and this option is for something else. I am using SRILM version 1.5.8, but I
don't believe there's been any relevant changes to nbest-lattice since then.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>The reason I want to do this is to preserve timing
information from an NBestList2.0 list; when the edges get merged there is also
a loss of backtrace information (when using -nbest-backtrace).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Tim<o:p></o:p></p>
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