The only discounting methods that support fractional counts are
-cdiscount*
-wbdiscount*
(You can look in include/Discount.h and see which classes do NOT have
a member function
virtual Boolean estimate(NgramCounts<FloatCount> &counts, unsigned order)
{ return false; };
)
--Andreas
In message <Pine.LNX.4.60.0408231421100.20065 at ADDRESS HIDDEN>you wrote:
> I'm trying to create a back-off file using ngram-count and a count file that
> has float "counts" derived from another model but get the error message:
>
> error in discount estimator for order 1
>
> The -float-counts option says that it only supports certain types of
> discounting but doesn't say which. Could this be the problem? Otherwise, what
>
> sort of data problems could cause this message, does anyone know?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dan
>
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