... precedingcontext w1. wn−1, to be the ratio of the num-ber of occurrences in a training corpus of the N-gram w1. wnto the total number of occurrences of any word in the same context:p(wn|w1. ... depends,at most, on the N-gram length and the the N-gramcount itself. The values of the α, β, and γ parame-ters depend on the context w1. wn−1. For eachcontext, the values of α, β, and γ must ... sources of error in estimating probabilities for the N-gramsobserved in the training corpus. The problem thathas received the most attention is the fact that, on the whole, the MLE probabilities for...