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... estimating N- gramlanguage models.Kneser-Ney smoothing, however, requiresnonstandard N- gram counts for the lower-order models used to smooth the highest-order model. For some applications, thismakes ... new method eliminatingmost of the gap between Kneser-Ney andthose methods.1 IntroductionStatistical language models are potentially usefulfor any language technology task that producesnatural -language ... currently be the best approach when language models based on ordinary counts are desired.ReferencesChen, Stanley F., and Joshua Goodman. 1998.An empirical study of smoothing techniques forlanguage...
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... M -Gram Language Modeling. In Pro-ceedings of International Conference on Acoustics,Speech, and Signal Processing.Robert C. Moore and William Lewis. 2010. Intelligentselection of languagemodel ... growing discounts, sincefrequent n- grams will appear in more of the re-jected sentences, and nonuniform discounting over n- grams of each count, since the sentences are cho-sen according to a likelihood ... the count of each n- gram, is one of the core aspects of Kneser-Ney language modeling (Kneser and Ney, 1995). For allbut the smallest n- gram counts, Kneser-Ney uses asingle discount, one that...
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... interestingdirection.ReferencesMaximilian Bisani and Hermann Ney. 2005. Open vo-cabulary speech recognition with flat hybrid models.In Interspeech, pages 725–728.Keh-Jiann Chen and Wei-Yun Ma. 2002. Unknownword ... can be used in the construction.That is, beginning with only characters in the lexi-con and using the training data to alter the currentlexicon in each iteration. This is also an interestingdirection.ReferencesMaximilian ... constructed by differentlexicons and corresponding language modelsIn Table 6 we only evaluate ranks on those ref-erence characters that can be found in its corre-sponding confusion network cl ust...
... Speech and Language. R. Kneser and H. Ney. 1995. Improved backing-off form -gram language modeling. In International Confer-ence on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing.David J. C. Mackay and ... wereeliminated leaving 1,162,052 tokens in 51,339 sen-tences. Capitalization and punctuation were left in-tact. The n- gram patterns of the Brown corpus wereextracted and the necessary counts were ... performancewith a 3 -gram model and gives 8.53 bits of cross en-tropy on the Brown corpus.4.2 Kneser-NeyKneser-Ney discounting (Kneser and Ney, 1995)has been reported as the best performing smooth-ing...
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... of unit length. Our second weighting is based on the notion that an n -gram that only occurs in a few languages is more discriminative than an n - gram that occurs in nearly every document. ... results on the 1996 NIST Language Recognition Evaluation database. 1 Introduction Spoken language and written language are similar in many ways. Therefore, much of the research in spoken language ... identification of spoken language based on pho-netic units much more challenging than the identi-fication of written language. In fact, the challenge of LID is inter-disciplinary, involving...
... text and “adult” text. This resultedin 12 LM perplexity features per article based ontrigram, bigram and unigram LMs trained on Bri-tannica (adult), Britannica Elementary, CNN (adult)and CNN ... based on the observedfrequency in a training corpus and smoothed usingmodified Kneser-Ney smoothing (Chen and Good-man, 1999). We used the SRI Language ModelingToolkit (Stolcke, 2002) for language ... language modeling techniques tothis task. Si and Callan (2001) conducted prelimi-nary work to classify science web pages using uni- gram models. More recently, Collins-Thompson andCallan manually...
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