milu philip wrote:
> Sir,
>
> I am a student of Amrita Vishwa Vidyappethom doing my Mtech in the
> field of computational engineering and networking. I am doing a
> project by name Languag eIdentification Using Statistical
> Approaches.The techniques used are PRLM and PPRLM. The softwares being
> used are phone recogniser and SRILM. SRILM is used for language
> modelling and phone recogniser is used for creation of phones from a
> speech sample.
>
> After the phones are obtained , it is given as input to SRILM for
> language modelling.Once the training language models are obtained, the
> phone sof the testing language is given. My doubt is that when the
> command
>
> ngram -ppl TEST.text -lm TRAINING.lm
>
> of SRILM is given, we get perplexity along with a logprob value. Is it
> the phone sequence of the testing language which is mentioned as
> "TEST.text" in the above mentioned command or can we create language
> model for the test sequence and then give it as
-ppl expects a text file containing test data. One sentence per line.
>
> ngram -ppl TEST.lm -lm TRAINING.lm
>
> In both the cases the logprob values are different.
the second command would produce garbage, as the LM file would be
interpreted as test data.
Andreas
>
> Is there any other command in SRILM, which can be used to obtain the
> probability that a trained language model produces a particular test
> sequence?
> Please help me out by clarifying this doubt.
>
> Thanking you,
>
> Milu.
>
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