... to incorporate large-scale n-gram languagemodels in conjunction withincremental syntactic language models. The added decoding time cost of our syntactic language model is very high. By increasing ... trans-lation has effectively used n-gram word sequence models as language models. Modern phrase-based translation using large scalen-gram languagemodels generally performs wellin terms of lexical ... usesupertag n-gram LMs. Syntactic language models have also been explored with tree-based translation models. Charniak et al. (2003) use syntactic lan-guage models to rescore the output of a...
... language models trained from text or speech corpora of vari-ous genres and sizes. The largest available language models are based on written text: we investigate theeffect of written text languagemodels ... dif-ferences among the different languagemodels whenextended features are present are relatively small.We assume that much of the information expressedin the languagemodels overlaps with the lexical ... information fromthe external languagemodels by defining a rerankerfeature for each external language model. The valueof this feature is the log probability assigned by the language model to the candidate...
... of EnglishBigrams. Computer Speech & Language, 5(1):19–54.Joshua Goodman. 2001. A Bit of Progress in Language Modeling. Computer Speech & Language, 15(4):403–434.Bo-June (Paul) Hsu ... Association for Computational LinguisticsAn Empirical Investigation of Discountingin Cross-Domain Language Models Greg Durrett and Dan KleinComputer Science DivisionUniversity of California, Berkeley{gdurrett,klein}@cs.berkeley.eduAbstractWe ... with the amount of growth being closelycorrelated with the corpus divergence. Finally, we build a language model exploiting a parametric formof the growing discount and show perplexity gains...
... Experimental Results4.1 Baseline Lexicon, Corpora and Language Models The baseline lexicon was automatically constructedfrom a 300 MB Chinese news text corpus rangingfrom 1997 to 1999 using ... set of output words and also the buildingunits in the language model (LM). Lexical wordsoffer local constraints to combine phonemes intoshort chunks while the language model combinesphonemes ... order of language model.open vocabulary ASR. Morphs are another possi-bility, which are longer than graphemes but shorterthan words, in other western languages (Hirsim¨akiet al., 2005).Chinese...
... Kneser-Ney andthose methods.1 IntroductionStatistical languagemodels are potentially usefulfor any language technology task that producesnatural -language text as a final (or intermediate)output. ... perplexity of any known methodfor estimating N-gram language models. Kneser-Ney smoothing, however, requiresnonstandard N-gram counts for the lower-order models used to smooth the highest-order model. ... best approach when language models based on ordinary counts are desired.ReferencesChen, Stanley F., and Joshua Goodman. 1998.An empirical study of smoothing techniques for language modeling....
... statistical language models. In this paper, we also use support vectormachines to combine features from tradi-tional reading level measures, statistical language models, and other language pro-cessing ... use scores from languagemodels asfeatures in another classifier (e.g. an SVM). For ex-ample, perplexity (P P) is an information-theoreticmeasure often used to assess language models: P P = 2H(t|c), ... of syntax. Our approach uses n-gram languagemodels as a low-cost automatic ap-proximation of both syntactic and semantic analy-sis. Statistical languagemodels (LMs) are used suc-cessfully...
... comparison of in-grammar recognition performance.3 Language modellingTo generate the different trigram language models we used the SRI language modelling toolkit (Stol-cke, 2002) with Good-Turing ... decades of statistical language modeling: Where do we go from here? In Proceed-ings of IEEE:88(8).Rosenfeld R. 2000. Incorporating Linguistic Structureinto Statistical Language Models. In PhilosophicalTransactions ... statistical languagemodels (DM-SLMs)by using GF to generate all utterances that arespecific to certain dialogue moves from our in-terpretation grammar. In this way we can pro-duce models that...
... 2007. Large language models in machine translation. In Proceedingsof the 2007 Joint Conference on Empirical Meth-ods in Natural Language Processing and Com-putational Natural Language Learning ... Kneser-Ney smoothed n-gram models. IEEE Transac-tions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing,15(5):1617–1624.A. Stolcke. 1998. Entropy-based pruning of backoff language models. In Proc. DARPA ... 8 billion.3 Speech Recognition ExperimentsWe have trained languagemodels on the in-domain data together with web data, and these models have been used in speech recognition ex-periments....
... grammars for modeling agglutinationin this language, but first we will present the for-mer class of languages and its acceptor automata.3.1 Linear context free languages andtwo-taped nondeterministic ... 2010.c2010 Association for Computational LinguisticsThe use of formal languagemodels in the typology of the morphology ofAmerindian languagesAndr´es Osvaldo PortaUniversidad de Buenos Aireshugporta@yahoo.com.arAbstractThe ... natural representa-tion in terms of linear context-free languages.2 Quichua Santiague˜noThe quichua santiague˜no is a language of theQuechua language family. It is spoken in the San-tiago del...
... novel language modelcaching technique that improves the queryspeed of our languagemodels (and SRILM)by up to 300%.1 IntroductionFor modern statistical machine translation systems, language models ... with two different language models. Our first language model, WMT2010, was a 5-gram Kneser-Ney language model which storesprobability/back-off pairs as values. We trained this language model on ... and Smaller N -Gram Language Models Adam Pauls Dan KleinComputer Science DivisionUniversity of California, Berkeley{adpauls,klein}@cs.berkeley.eduAbstractN-gram languagemodels are a major...
... lan-guage models (Charniak et al., 2003; Shen et al.,2008; Post and Gildea, 2008). Since our philoso-phy is fundamentally different from them in that we build contextually-informed languagemodels ... or even trillions of English words,huge languagemodels are built in a distributed man-ner (Zhang et al., 2006; Brants et al., 2007). Such language models yield better translation results butat ... direction digs deeply into monolin-gual data to build linguistically-informed language models. For example, Charniak et al. (2003) presenta syntax-based language model for machine transla-tion which...
... (lossless) lan-guages models and our randomized language model.Note that the standard practice of measuring per-plexity is not meaningful here since (1) for efficientcomputation, the language model ... 2007.Compressing trigram languagemodels with golombcoding. In Proceedings of EMNLP-CoNLL 2007,Prague, Czech Republic, June.P. Clarkson and R. Rosenfeld. 1997 . Statistical language modeling using ... pruning of back-off language models. In Proc. DARPA Broadcast NewsTranscription and Understanding Workshop, pages270–274.D. Talbot and M. Osborne. 2007a. Randomised language modelling for...
... .Class-based models. In many applications, it is nat-ural and convenient to construct class-based language models, that is models based on classes of words (Brownet al., 1992). Such models are ... experi-mental results demonstrating its efficiency.Representation of languagemodels by WFAs. Clas-sical-gram languagemodels admit a natural representa-tion by WFAs in which each state encodes ... re-lated to the construction of language models. We presentnew and efficient algorithms to address these more gen-eral problems.Counting. Classical languagemodels are constructedby deriving...
... Monz. 2011. Statistical Machine Translationwith Local Language Models. In Proceedings of the2011 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 869–879, Edinburgh,Scotland, ... (Tillmann, 2004; Koehn et al., 2005), twoword-based language models, distortion, wordand phrase penalties. The translation and re-ordering models are obtained by combining mod-els independently ... on Spoken Language Translation(IWSLT), San Francisco, CA.P. F. Brown, V. J. Della Pietra, P. V. deSouza, J. C. Lai,and R. L. Mercer. 1992. Class-based n-gram mod-els of natural language. ...
... new language. 避免将英文翻译为中文,或将中文翻译为英文,也不鼓励学生翻译。通过可视手段、手势、身体活动以及清楚的上下文语境让学生明白意思。使用同样的方式检查学生是否已理解,并要求学生用新学的语言将意思表演出来。Ten Principles of Teaching Chinese to Children Building Blocks of Chinese ... Demonstrations2 links language instruction to the philosophy and content of the general elementary school curriculum.Thematic Planning Strategies for Teaching Early ChineseLanguage Learners ... ConnectionsConnectionsComparisonsComparisonsCommunitiesCommunitiesCulturesCulturesCommunicationCommunication Standards for Standards for Foreign Language LearningForeign Language Learningin thein the21st Century21st Century connects content, language and culture goals to a “big idea,”or...