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cmp-lg1998
Hierarchical Non-Emitting Markov Models
Eric Sven Ristad, Robert G. Thomas
We describe a simple variant of the interpolated Markov model with non-emitting state transitions and prove that it is strictly more powerful than any Markov model. More importantl…
cmp-lg1996★ 4 cited
Nonuniform Markov models
Eric Sven Ristad, Robert G. Thomas
A statistical language model assigns probability to strings of arbitrary length. Unfortunately, it is not possible to gather reliable statistics on strings of arbitrary length from…
cmp-lg1995
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…