Downloading and Building SRILM

Building SRILM

SRILM is available only in source form. We cannot offer precompiled binaries, so you will have to download the source code and build and install the software yourself. Instructions can be found in the INSTALL file in the top-level distribution directory.

If you have previously downloaded SRILM you may want to check for the current release version and the change log.

Prerequisites

Besides the SRILM distribution, you will also need the following freely available tools:

• A template-capable ANSI-C/C++ compiler, preferably gcc version 3.4.3 or higher.
• GNU make, to control compilation and installation.
• GNU gawk, required for many of the utility scripts.
• GNU gzip to unpack the distribution, and to allow SRILM programs to handle ".Z" and ".gz" compressed datafiles (highly recommended).
• bzip2 to handle ".bz2" compressed files (optional).
• p7zip to handle "7-zip" compressed files (optional).
• The Tcl embeddable scripting language library (only required for some of the test executables).
• The CYGWIN porting layer, to build SRILM on a Microsoft Windows system. CYGWIN comes with the packages above, so this is all you will need.

Download

To download the source code, please first fill in the form below. Read the License document and indicate your agreement to comply with it by pressing the button below. This will start the download. The distribution is in gzipped tar format, so you should tell your browser to store the data in a file ending in ".tar.gz". You will need the "gunzip" and "tar" utilities to unpack the downloaded file into a directory structure.

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Reference

Published research using SRILM may cite the following paper:

A. Stolcke (2002), SRILM -- An Extensible Language Modeling Toolkit. Proc. Intl. Conf. on Spoken Language Processing, vol. 2, pp. 901-904, Denver.

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