... 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 be set toproduce a normalized conditional probability dis-tribution. ... backoff”, or “pureinterpolation”. In pure backoff methods, all in-stances of α = 1 and all instances of β = 0. Thepure backoff methods we consider are Katz back-off and backoff absolute discounting, ... smoothing is an exception to this gener-alization, but since it has only interpolation parameters and Our new model provides additional degrees of freedom so the α and β interpolation parameterscan...