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Kneser–Ney smoothing is a method primarily used to calculate the probability distribution of ''n''-grams in a document based on their histories.〔('A Bayesian Interpretation of Interpolated Kneser-Ney NUS School of Computing Technical Report TRA2/06' )〕 It is widely considered the most effective method of smoothing due to its use of absolute discounting by subtracting a fixed value from the probability's lower order terms to omit ''n''-grams with lower frequencies. This approach has been considered equally effective for both higher and lower order ''n''-grams. A common example that illustrates the concept behind this method is the frequency of the bigram "San Francisco". If it appears several times in a training corpus, the frequency of the unigram "Francisco" will also be high. Relying on only the unigram frequency to predict the frequencies of ''n''-grams leads to skewed results;〔('Brown University: Introduction to Computational Linguistics ' )〕 however, Kneser–Ney smoothing corrects this by considering the frequency of the unigram in relation to possible words preceding it. ==Method== The equation for bigram probabilities are as follows: 〔('Kneser Ney Smoothing Explained' )〕 This equation can be extended to n-grams: 〔('NLP Tutorial: Smoothing' )〕 The probability for a single word is the number of times it appears after any other word divided by the number of words in the corpus, which is represented by the function . The parameter is a constant which denotes the discount value subtracted from the count of each n-gram, usually between 0 and 1. This model uses the concept of absolute-discounting interpolation which incorporates information from higher and lower order language models. The addition of the term for lower order n-grams adds more weight to the overall probability when the count for the higher order n-grams is zero.〔('An empirical study of smoothing techniques for language modeling' )〕 Similarly, the weight of the lower order model decreases when the count of the n-gram is non zero. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kneser–Ney smoothing」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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