LECTURE 32: N-GRAM LANGUAGE MODELS
- Objectives:
- Communication theory model of speech recognition
- Statistical language models
- N-gram language models
- Perplexity
This lecture combines material from the course textbook:
X. Huang, A. Acero, and H.W. Hon,
Spoken Language Processing - A Guide to Theory, Algorithm,
and System Development,
Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, USA,
ISBN: 0-13-022616-5, 2001.
and from this source:
F. Jelinek,
Statistical Methods for Speech Recognition,
MIT Press, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, ISBN: 0-262-10066-5, 1998.