... .Class-based models. In many applications, it is nat-ural and convenient to construct class-based language models, that is models based on classes of words (Brownet al., 1992). Such models are ... construc-tion of languagemodels found in new language process-ing applications and reported experimental results show-ing their practicality for constructing very large models. These algorithms ... by as-signing them some probabilities. There are classicaltechniques for constructinglanguagemodels such as-gram models with various smoothing techniques (seeChen and Goodman (1998) and...
... using statisticallanguage models. In this paper, we also use support vectormachines to combine features from tradi-tional reading level measures, statistical language models, and other language ... that categoryor not, rather than constructing a classifier whichranks documents into different categories relative toeach other.4.1 StatisticalLanguageModels Statistical LMs predict the probability ... of syntax. Our approach uses n-gram languagemodels as a low-cost automatic ap-proximation of both syntactic and semantic analy-sis. Statisticallanguagemodels (LMs) are used suc-cessfully...
... decades of statistical language modeling: Where do we go from here? In Proceed-ings of IEEE:88(8).Rosenfeld R. 2000. Incorporating Linguistic Structureinto StatisticalLanguage Models. In ... comparison of in-grammar recognition performance.3 Language modellingTo generate the different trigram language models we used the SRI language modelling toolkit (Stol-cke, 2002) with Good-Turing ... movespecific statisticallanguagemodels (DM-SLMs)by using GF to generate all utterances that arespecific to certain dialogue moves from our in-terpretation grammar. In this way we can pro-duce models...
... of statistical machine translation: Parameter estimation. Computa-tional Linguistics, 19(2):263–311.Eugene Charniak, Kevin Knight, and Kenji Yamada.2003. Syntax-based languagemodels for statistical machine ... as language models for statistical machine translation. In Proceed-ings of AMTA.Sylvain Raybaud, Caroline Lavecchia, David Langlois,and Kamel Sma¨ıli. 2009. New confidence measuresfor statistical ... Computational LinguisticsEnhancing LanguageModels in Statistical Machine Translationwith Backward N-grams and Mutual Information TriggersDeyi Xiong, Min Zhang, Haizhou LiHuman Language TechnologyInstitute...
... research in statistical machine trans-lation has effectively used n-gram word sequence models as language models. Modern phrase-based translation using large scalen-gram languagemodels generally ... to incorporate large-scale n-gram languagemodels in conjunction withincremental syntactic language models. The added decoding time cost of our syntactic language model is very high. By increasing ... translation model. Instead, we incor-porate syntax into the language model.Traditional approaches to languagemodels inspeech recognition and statistical machine transla-tion focus on the use of...
... language models trained from text or speech corpora of vari-ous genres and sizes. The largest available language models are based on written text: we investigate theeffect of written text languagemodels ... dif-ferences among the different languagemodels whenextended features are present are relatively small.We assume that much of the information expressedin the languagemodels overlaps with the lexical ... information fromthe external languagemodels by defining a rerankerfeature for each external language model. The valueof this feature is the log probability assigned by the language model to the candidate...
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... Kneser-Ney andthose methods.1 Introduction Statistical languagemodels are potentially usefulfor any language technology task that producesnatural -language text as a final (or intermediate)output. ... perplexity of any known methodfor estimating N-gram language models. Kneser-Ney smoothing, however, requiresnonstandard N-gram counts for the lower-order models used to smooth the highest-order model. ... best approach when language models based on ordinary counts are desired.ReferencesChen, Stanley F., and Joshua Goodman. 1998.An empirical study of smoothing techniques for language modeling....
... distance (Wagner and Fischer, 1974) and ngram distance (Angell et al., 1983). Recently, statisticallanguagemodels and feature- based method have been used for context-sensitive spelling correction, ... times is c/(n + r). 923 Japanese OCR Error Correction using Character Shape Similarity and StatisticalLanguage Model Masaaki NAGATA NTT Information and Communication Systems Laboratories 1-1 ... novel OCR error correction method for languages without word delimiters that have a large character set, such as Japanese and Chinese. It consists of a statistical OCR model, an approxi- mate...
... 2007. Large language models in machine translation. In Proceedingsof the 2007 Joint Conference on Empirical Meth-ods in Natural Language Processing and Com-putational Natural Language Learning ... Kneser-Ney smoothed n-gram models. IEEE Transac-tions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing,15(5):1617–1624.A. Stolcke. 1998. Entropy-based pruning of backoff language models. In Proc. DARPA ... wereselected for each language. The adaptation wasthought to take place off-line on a server.3.2.1 Data setsFor each language, the adaptation takes place ontwo baseline models, which are the...
... grammars for modeling agglutinationin this language, but first we will present the for-mer class of languages and its acceptor automata.3.1 Linear context free languages andtwo-taped nondeterministic ... 2010.c2010 Association for Computational LinguisticsThe use of formal languagemodels in the typology of the morphology ofAmerindian languagesAndr´es Osvaldo PortaUniversidad de Buenos Aireshugporta@yahoo.com.arAbstractThe ... natural representa-tion in terms of linear context-free languages.2 Quichua Santiague˜noThe quichua santiague˜no is a language of theQuechua language family. It is spoken in the San-tiago del...
... novel language modelcaching technique that improves the queryspeed of our languagemodels (and SRILM)by up to 300%.1 IntroductionFor modern statistical machine translation systems, language models ... with two different language models. Our first language model, WMT2010, was a 5-gram Kneser-Ney language model which storesprobability/back-off pairs as values. We trained this language model on ... and Smaller N -Gram Language Models Adam Pauls Dan KleinComputer Science DivisionUniversity of California, Berkeley{adpauls,klein}@cs.berkeley.eduAbstractN-gram languagemodels are a major...
... 2007.Compressing trigram languagemodels with golombcoding. In Proceedings of EMNLP-CoNLL 2007,Prague, Czech Republic, June.P. Clarkson and R. Rosenfeld. 1997 . Statistical language modeling using ... 2007a. Randomised language modelling for statistical machine translation. In 45thAnnual Meeting of the ACL 2007, Prague.D. Talbot and M. Osborne. 2007b. Smoothed Bloomfilter language models: Tera-scale ... alignmenttemplate approach to statistical machine translation.Computational Linguistics, 30(4):417–449.Andreas Stolcke. 1998. Entropy-based pruning of back-off language models. In Proc. DARPA Broadcast...
... the possibility of applying statistical models to the annotation problem is really inter-esting. Moreover, it gives the possibility of evalu-ating the statistical models. The evaluation of theperformance ... or statistical ma-chine translation), an alternative data-based ap-proach has been developed in the last decade (Stol-cke et al., 2000; Young, 2000). This approach re-lies on statisticalmodels ... Pr(Wsk−dsk−(d+1)+1|Uk)This model can be easily implemented usingsimple statisticalmodels (N-grams and HiddenMarkov Models) . The decoding (segmentationand DA assignation) was implemented using...
... use of languagemodels in-stead of word lists to measure lexical complex-ity. Schwarm and Ostendorf (2005) developeda SVM categoriser combining a classifier basedon trigram languagemodels ... measures forfirst and second language texts. In Proceedings ofNAACL HLT, pages 460–467.M. Heilman, K. Collins-Thompson, and M. Eskenazi.2008. An analysis of statisticalmodels and fea-tures for ... Methods in Language Process-ing, volume 12. Manchester, UK.S.E. Schwarm and M. Ostendorf. 2005. Reading levelassessment using support vector machines and sta-tistical language models. Proceedings...