(WIP) Notes on "Natural Language Processing by Jacob Eisenstein"

1 · Shane Mulligan · Oct. 22, 2019, 11 a.m.
Reading vs +/"Kneser-Ney" $NOTES/ws/nlp-natural-language-processing/reading/eisenstein-nlp-notes.txt Kneser-Ney smoothing Based on absolute discounting, but it redistributes the resulting probability mass in a different way from Katz backoff. Empirical evidence points to Kneser-Ney smoothing as the state-of-art for n-gram LMing....