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NLP for IR - Microsoft Research

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Language models<br />

Given a sequence of words, w 1 w 2 … w n , what is the<br />

probability that it belongs to a language L?<br />

n-gram models: P(w n | w 1 w 2 … w n-1 )<br />

1. Unigram model<br />

2. Bigram model<br />

3. Trigram model

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