A Posteriori Individual Word Language Models for Vietnamese Language
Le Quan Ha, Tran Thi Thu Van, Hoang Tien Long, Nguyen Huu Tinh, Nguyen Ngoc Tham, Le Trong Ngoc · 2010
It is shown that the enormous improvement in the size of disk storage space in recent years can be used to build individual word-domain statistical language models, one for each significant word of a language that contributes to the context of the text. Each of these word-domain language models is a precise domain model for the relevant significant word; when combined appropriately, they provide a highly specific domain language model for the language following a cache, even a short cache. Our individual word probability and frequency models have been constructed and tested in the Vietnamese and English languages. For English, we employed the Wall Street Journal corpus of 40 million English word tokens; for Vietnamese, we used the QUB corpus of 6.5 million tokens. Our testing methods used a priori and a posteriori approaches. Finally, we explain adjustment of a previously exaggerated prediction of the potential power of a posteriori models. Accurate improvements in perplexity for 14 kinds of individual word language models have been obtained in tests, (i) between 33.9 % and 53.34 % for Vietnamese