We propose a class trigram language model in which each class is specified by a probabilistic context-free grammar. We show how to estimate the parameters of the model, and how to smooth these estimates. We present experimental perplexity and speech recognition results.
Cite as: Gillett, J., Ward, W. (1998) A language model combining trigrams and stochastic context-free grammars. Proc. 5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP 1998), paper 0872, doi: 10.21437/ICSLP.1998-488
@inproceedings{gillett98_icslp,
author={John Gillett and Wayne Ward},
title={{A language model combining trigrams and stochastic context-free grammars}},
year=1998,
booktitle={Proc. 5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP 1998)},
pages={paper 0872},
doi={10.21437/ICSLP.1998-488}
}