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<DIV><SPAN class=023201402-04012009><FONT size=2>Hi,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=023201402-04012009><FONT size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=023201402-04012009><FONT size=2>In recent days I am doing some
evaluation on some SRI training tools. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=023201402-04012009><FONT size=2>I met problems when I tried to
use skipping LMs and factored LMs.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=023201402-04012009><FONT size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=023201402-04012009><FONT size=2>What is the format of these
models? </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=023201402-04012009><FONT size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=023201402-04012009><FONT size=2>As for skipping LMs, what is
the meaning of the </FONT></SPAN><SPAN class=023201402-04012009><FONT face=宋体
size=2>last part at the end of the LM file? </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=023201402-04012009></SPAN><SPAN class=023201402-04012009><FONT
face=宋体 size=2>\end\ <FONT color=#ff0000>## the end of a normal LM
file</FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=023201402-04012009><FONT face=宋体 size=2>-pau- 0.5<BR></s>
0.5<BR><s> 0<BR><unk> 0.0041594 <FONT color=#ff0000>(how to apply
these coef. to some beam-search engine?)</FONT><BR></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=023201402-04012009><FONT face=宋体 size=2>As for the factored
LMs, I trained a bigram, and got a result that </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=023201402-04012009><FONT face=宋体 size=2>there seemed to
be no backing-off coef. in the unigram section. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=023201402-04012009><FONT face=宋体 size=2>And what is the meaning
of the coefficients right after the 2-gram probs?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=023201402-04012009><FONT face=宋体 size=2>...</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=宋体
size=2>\0x0-grams:<BR>-1.071043
</s> <BR>-1.281587
<unk> <FONT color=#ff0000>(where is the backing-off coef.?
)</FONT><BR>...</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=宋体
size=2>\0x1-grams:<BR>-2.178066 86AA
B2BB <FONT color=#ff0000>-0.7455529(what is
the meaning of these coef.?)</FONT><BR>-0.9450388
86AA B6BA_BAC5<BR>-1.72854 86AA
CBF4<BR>-1.281777 86AA
CECA_BAC5<BR>-6.393295 <s>
</s> <FONT
color=#ff0000>-0.9474632</FONT><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=宋体 size=2>Anyone can show me some helpful
reference? Thanks a lot. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=宋体 size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT size=2>Best</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT size=2>Regards,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=宋体 size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT size=2>Rick Cai</FONT></DIV>
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