Character-based Language Model
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| Year of publication | 2014 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Eighth Workshop on Recent Advances in Slavonic Natural Language Processing |
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| Web | https://nlp.fi.muni.cz/raslan/2014/6.pdf |
| Field | Linguistics |
| Keywords | language model; suffix array; LCP; trie; character-based; random text generator; corpus |
| Description | Language modelling and also other natural language processing tasks are usually based on words. I present here a more general yet simpler approach to language modelling using much smaller units of text data: character-based language model (CBLM). In this paper I describe the underlying data structure of the model, evaluate the model using standard measures (entropy, perplexity). As a proof-of-concept and an extrinsic evaluation I present also a random sentence generator based on this model. |
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