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A bit of progress in language modeling
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In the past several years, a number of different language modeling improvements over simple trigram models have been found, including caching, higher-order n -grams, skipping, interpolated Kneser?Ney smoothing, and clustering. We present explorations of variations on, or of the limits of, each of these techniques, including showing that sentence mixture models may have more potential. While all of these techniques have been studied separately, they have rarely been studied in combination. We compare a combination of all techniques together to a Katz smoothed trigram model with no count cutoffs. We achieve perplexity reductions between 38 and 50% (1 bit of entropy), depending on training data size, as well as a word error rate reduction of 8.9%. Our perplexity reductions are perhaps the highest reported compared to a fair baseline.
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- Authors
- Goodman, J. T.
- Venue
- Computer Speech & Language
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2001-10
- Volume
- 15
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 403-434
- ISSN
- 0885-2308 (ISSN-L)
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- W2111305191
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- 469
- References
- 1
- FWCI
- 15.02
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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