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    Works for me using a MSVC 2010 compiled ngram:<br>
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    [status,result] =
    system('D:\SLTools\SRI\srilm1.7\bin\x64\Release\ngram.exe -lm
    D:\...\eg.mad.arpa -ppl D:\...\en-us.trans.txt -debug 2'<br>
    <br>
    >> result<br>
    reading 100001 1-grams reading 864169 2-grams reading 1739458
    3-grams<br>
    ...<br>
        p( am | <unk> ...)     = [1gram] 0.0033243 [ -2.4783 ]<br>
        p( interested | am ...)     = [2gram] 0.000292752 [ -3.5335 ]<br>
        p( in | interested ...)     = [3gram] 0.454779 [ -0.3422 ]<br>
        p( learning | in ...)     = [3gram] 0.00223203 [ -2.6513 ]<br>
        p( more | learning ...)     = [2gram] 0.00943844 [ -2.0251 ]<br>
        p( <unk> | more ...)     = [OOV] 0 [ -1.#INF ]<br>
        p( restaurant | <unk> ...)     = [1gram] 0.000581166 [
    -3.2357 ]<br>
        p( is | restaurant ...)     = [2gram] 0.00385035 [ -2.4145 ]<br>
        p( on | is ...)     = [3gram] 0.0063841 [ -2.1949 ]<br>
        p( the | on ...)     = [3gram] 0.192486 [ -0.7156 ]<br>
        p( fifth | the ...)     = [3gram] 0.000952138 [ -3.0213 ]<br>
        p( floor | fifth ...)     = [2gram] 0.000440758 [ -3.3558 ]<br>
        p( </s> | floor ...)     = [3gram] 0.304299 [ -0.5167 ]<br>
    ...<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 6/13/2013 12:21 PM, Md. Akmal Haidar
      wrote:<br>
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      <div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times
        new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt">Hi Qiru,<br>
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        I tried it. It didn't work. The result shows ' '.<br>
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        <div><span>Akmal<br>
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          serif; font-size: 12pt;">
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              <hr size="1"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span
                    style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Qiru Zhou
                <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:qzhou@ispeech.org"><qzhou@ispeech.org></a><br>
                <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Md.
                Akmal Haidar <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:akmalcuet00@yahoo.com"><akmalcuet00@yahoo.com></a> <br>
                <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b>
                Thursday, June 13, 2013 10:42:26 AM<br>
                <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b>
                Re: [SRILM User List] SRILM command in Matlab<br>
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                <div> Try:<br>
                   [status,result] = system('<span>c:\cygwin\srilm\bin\cygwin\ngram

                    -lm LM -ppl test.txt -debug 2</span>')<br>
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                  -- Qiru<br>
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                  <div class="yiv6886733554moz-cite-prefix">On 6/12/2013
                    7:02 PM, Md. Akmal Haidar wrote:<br>
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                      new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt;">
                      <div>Hi,</div>
                      <div><br>
                        <span></span></div>
                      <div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;
                        font-family:times new roman, new york, times,
                        serif;
                        background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><span>Does
                          anyone know how to execute srilm command in
                          Matlab?</span></div>
                      <div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;
                        font-family:times new roman, new york, times,
                        serif;
                        background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><br>
                        <span></span></div>
                      <div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;
                        font-family:times new roman, new york, times,
                        serif;
                        background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><span>For
                          example, I need to compute the perplexity of
                          an LM. I have to run the following command in
                          Matlab<br>
                        </span></div>
                      <div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;
                        font-family:times new roman, new york, times,
                        serif;
                        background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><span>c:\cygwin\srilm\bin\cygwin\ngram

                          -lm LM -ppl test.txt -debug 2</span></div>
                      <div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;
                        font-family:times new roman, new york, times,
                        serif;
                        background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><br>
                        <span></span></div>
                      <div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;
                        font-family:times new roman, new york, times,
                        serif;
                        background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><span>is
                          there any way to run this in Matlab?</span></div>
                      <div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;
                        font-family:times new roman, new york, times,
                        serif;
                        background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><br>
                        <span></span></div>
                      <div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;
                        font-family:times new roman, new york, times,
                        serif;
                        background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><span>Thanks</span></div>
                      <div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;
                        font-family:times new roman, new york, times,
                        serif;
                        background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><span>Best
                          Regards</span></div>
                      <div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;
                        font-family:times new roman, new york, times,
                        serif;
                        background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><span>Akmal</span></div>
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