[logon] HandOn release schedule

[Francis Bond]

G'day,

> berthold suggests to revise our release schedule: essentially, he wants
> a few more days to further improve the DeEn language pair.  i would be
> happy pushing everything back by a week, i.e. temporarily open the SVN
> repository for write access (to the HandOn release candidate), and then
> re-starting the burn-in test phase on monday, november 24.  by then, we
> really should declare a code freeze, i.e. only check in mandatory fixes
> for genuine bugs in this release.
>
> francis and  eric, would you agree to the re-scheduling?  maybe you too
> have further improvements you would like to commit to this release?

I wouldn't say no to another round.

BTW, one thing we would like to do is change the model weights for jaen.
Locally, we change them in .tsdbrc.    I am not sure which script they
need to be put in to work: I guess they are referenced by the transfer
engine itself (so can go in mt.lsp) but also the controller (thus in
ja2en.lsp)?  Can you advise us here?

Yours,

-- 
Francis Bond <http://www2.nict.go.jp/x/x161/en/member/bond/>
NICT Language Infrastructure Group

P.S. We currently use:
;;; fiddle with the weights for translation.
(setf *mt-analysis-weight* 0.2)  ; jacy
(setf *mt-transfer-weight* 0.2)  ; mrs.blm
(setf *mt-realization-weight* 0.1) ; Erik
(setf *mt-lm-weight* 0.5) ; bnc.blm
(setf *mt-distortion-weight* 0.0) ;  who knows?
(setf *mt-lfn-weight* 0.0) ; we aren't norwegian-english
(setf *mt-lnf-weight* 0.0) ; or visa-versa

P.P.S. I have tested jaen end-to-end on tiger, and with the fix to the
version checking it works fine.  If only I could access it at work
(^_^).