[SRILM User List] Pruning for Creating sausages from Lattice

[Andreas Stolcke]

In message <x2m660bf6491003301419gf9b3273az52c3b200f413de63 at mail.gmail.com>you wro
te:
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> When we are creating sausages from the lattice, is the low probability links
> being pruned before automatically  or we have to prune them ourselves?

You have to prune them yourself, but you can do it in the same run as the 
sausage building, e.g.,

lattice-tool -read-htk -fast-prune -posterior-prune 1e-3 -posterior-decode ...

or

lattice-tool -read-htk -fast-prune -posterior-prune 1e-3 -write-mesh-dir ...

See the order of processing steps in the lattice-tool(1) man page.

Andreas