Slide 1 1 Smoothing LING 570 Fei Xia Week 5: 10/24/07 TexPoint fonts used in EMF. Read the TexPoint manual before you delete this box.: AAA A A AA A A A Slide 2 2 Smoothing…

Chapter 4: N-GRAMS Heshaam Faili [email protected] University of Tehran N-Gram But it must be recognized that the notion “probability of a sentence” is an entirely…

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