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A Natural Law of Succession
Eric Sven Ristad
Consider the problem of multinomial estimation. You are given an alphabet of k distinct symbols and are told that the i-th symbol occurred exactly n_i times in the past. On the bas…
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New Techniques for Context Modeling
Eric Sven Ristad, Robert G. Thomas
We introduce three new techniques for statistical language models: extension modeling, nonmonotonic contexts, and the divergence heuristic. Together these techniques result in lang…