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Perplexity of n-gram and dependency language models

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Post-n<strong>gram</strong> LM<br />

In general: P(s) = P(w 1 , w 2 , ... w m ) ≈ Π i=1..m P(w i | h i )<br />

h i … context (history) <strong>of</strong> word w i<br />

left-to-right factorization order<br />

Bi<strong>gram</strong> LM: h i = w i-1 (one previous word)<br />

Tri<strong>gram</strong> LM: h i = w i-2 , w i-1 (two previous words)<br />

right-to-left factorization order<br />

Post-bi<strong>gram</strong> LM: h i = w i+1 (one following word)<br />

Post-tri<strong>gram</strong> LM: h i = w i+1 , w i+2 (two following words)<br />

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