diff --git a/contrib/other-builds/moses2/legacy/ProbingPT/probing_hash_utils.hh b/contrib/other-builds/moses2/legacy/ProbingPT/probing_hash_utils.hh
index 0b33bae78..cc68ec920 100644
--- a/contrib/other-builds/moses2/legacy/ProbingPT/probing_hash_utils.hh
+++ b/contrib/other-builds/moses2/legacy/ProbingPT/probing_hash_utils.hh
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 namespace Moses2
 {
 
-#define API_VERSION 10
+#define API_VERSION 11
 
 //Hash table entry
 struct Entry
diff --git a/contrib/other-builds/moses2/legacy/ProbingPT/quering.cpp b/contrib/other-builds/moses2/legacy/ProbingPT/quering.cpp
index d0a449792..18bc12fe9 100644
--- a/contrib/other-builds/moses2/legacy/ProbingPT/quering.cpp
+++ b/contrib/other-builds/moses2/legacy/ProbingPT/quering.cpp
@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
+#include <unordered_map>
 #include "quering.hh"
+#include "util/exception.hh"
+#include "../Util2.h"
 
 namespace Moses2
 {
@@ -15,28 +18,54 @@ QueryEngine::QueryEngine(const char * filepath)
   read_map(source_vocabids, path_to_source_vocabid.c_str());
 
   //Read config file
-  std::string line;
+  std::unordered_map<std::string, std::string> keyValue;
+
   std::ifstream config((basepath + "/config").c_str());
+  std::string line;
+  while (getline(config, line)) {
+    std::vector<std::string> toks = Moses2::Tokenize(line, "\t");
+    UTIL_THROW_IF2(toks.size() != 2, "Wrong config format:" << line);
+    keyValue[ toks[0] ] = toks[1];
+  }
+
+  bool found;
   //Check API version:
-  getline(config, line);
-  int version = atoi(line.c_str());
-  if (version != API_VERSION) {
+  int version;
+  found = Get(keyValue, "API_VERSION", version);
+  if (!found || version != API_VERSION) {
     std::cerr << "The ProbingPT API has changed. " << version << "!="
         << API_VERSION << " Please rebinarize your phrase tables." << std::endl;
     exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
   }
+
   //Get tablesize.
-  getline(config, line);
-  int tablesize = atoi(line.c_str());
+  int tablesize;
+  found = Get(keyValue, "uniq_entries", tablesize);
+  if (!found) {
+    std::cerr << "uniq_entries not found" << std::endl;
+    exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
+  }
+
   //Number of scores
-  getline(config, line);
-  num_scores = atoi(line.c_str());
+  found = Get(keyValue, "num_scores", num_scores);
+  if (!found) {
+    std::cerr << "num_scores not found" << std::endl;
+    exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
+  }
+
   //How may scores from lex reordering models
-  getline(config, line);
-  num_lex_scores = atoi(line.c_str());
+  found = Get(keyValue, "num_lex_scores", num_lex_scores);
+  if (!found) {
+    std::cerr << "num_lex_scores not found" << std::endl;
+    exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
+  }
+
   // have the scores been log() and FloorScore()?
-  getline(config, line);
-  logProb = atoi(line.c_str());
+  found = Get(keyValue, "log_prob", logProb);
+  if (!found) {
+    std::cerr << "logProb not found" << std::endl;
+    exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
+  }
 
   config.close();
 
diff --git a/contrib/other-builds/moses2/legacy/ProbingPT/quering.hh b/contrib/other-builds/moses2/legacy/ProbingPT/quering.hh
index c6d6f000e..e8e595b2c 100644
--- a/contrib/other-builds/moses2/legacy/ProbingPT/quering.hh
+++ b/contrib/other-builds/moses2/legacy/ProbingPT/quering.hh
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 #pragma once
 
+#include <unordered_map>
 #include <sys/stat.h> //For finding size of file
 #include "vocabid.hh"
 #include <algorithm> //toLower
@@ -7,6 +8,7 @@
 #include "probing_hash_utils.hh"
 #include "hash.hh" //Includes line splitter
 #include "line_splitter.hh"
+#include "../Util2.h"
 
 namespace Moses2
 {
@@ -39,6 +41,19 @@ public:
 
   uint64_t getKey(uint64_t source_phrase[], size_t size) const;
 
+  template<typename T>
+  inline bool Get(const std::unordered_map<std::string, std::string> &keyValue, const std::string &sought, T &found) const
+  {
+    std::unordered_map<std::string, std::string>::const_iterator iter = keyValue.find(sought);
+    if (iter == keyValue.end()) {
+      return false;
+    }
+
+    const std::string &foundStr = iter->second;
+    found = Scan<T>(foundStr);
+    return true;
+  }
+
 };
 
 }
diff --git a/contrib/other-builds/moses2/legacy/ProbingPT/storing.cpp b/contrib/other-builds/moses2/legacy/ProbingPT/storing.cpp
index b4ed36ab1..32c0ab322 100644
--- a/contrib/other-builds/moses2/legacy/ProbingPT/storing.cpp
+++ b/contrib/other-builds/moses2/legacy/ProbingPT/storing.cpp
@@ -152,11 +152,11 @@ void createProbingPT(const std::string &phrasetable_path,
   //Write configfile
   std::ofstream configfile;
   configfile.open((basepath + "/config").c_str());
-  configfile << API_VERSION << '\n';
-  configfile << uniq_entries << '\n';
-  configfile << num_scores << '\n';
-  configfile << num_lex_scores << '\n';
-  configfile << log_prob << '\n';
+  configfile << "API_VERSION\t" << API_VERSION << '\n';
+  configfile << "uniq_entries\t" << uniq_entries << '\n';
+  configfile << "num_scores\t" << num_scores << '\n';
+  configfile << "num_lex_scores\t" << num_lex_scores << '\n';
+  configfile << "log_prob\t" << log_prob << '\n';
   configfile.close();
 }