Words’ Burstiness in Language Models

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Authors

RYCHLÝ Pavel

Year of publication 2011
Type Article in Proceedings
Conference Proceedings of Recent Advances in Slavonic Natural Language Processing, RASLAN 2011
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Faculty of Informatics

Citation
Web https://nlp.fi.muni.cz/raslan/2011/paper17.pdf
Field Linguistics
Keywords Burstiness; Language models; Words' probability
Description Good estimation of the probability of a single word is a crucial part of language modelling. It is based on raw frequency of the word in a training corpus. Such computation is a good estimation for functional words and most very frequent words, but it is a poor estimation for most content words because of words' tendency to occur in clusters. This paper provides an analysis of words' burstiness and propose a new unigram language model which handles bursty words much better. The evaluation of the model on two data sets shows consistently lower perplexity and cross-entropy in the new model.
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