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PROGRAM:
NAME
mkbingram
- make binary N-gram from ARPA N-gram file
SYNOPSIS
mkbingram [-nlr forward_ngram.arpa] [-nrl backward_ngram.arpa] [-d old_bingram_file]
{output_bingram_file}
DESCRIPTION
mkbingram is a tool to convert N-gram definition file(s) in ARPA standard format to a
compact Julius binary format. It will speed up the initial loading time of N-gram much
faster. It can read gzipped file directly.
From rev.4.0, Julius can deal with forward N-gram, backward N-gram and their combinations.
So, mkbingram now generates binary N-gram file from one of them, or combining them two to
produce one binary N-gram.
When only a forward N-gram is specified, mkbingram generates binary N-gram from only the
forward N-gram. When using this binary N-gram at Julius, it performs the 1st pass with the
2-gram probabilities in the N-gram, and run the 2nd pass with the given N-gram fully, with
converting forward probabilities to backward probabilities by Bayes rule.
When only a backward N-gram is specified, mkbingram generates an binary N-gram file that
contains only the backward N-gram. The 1st pass will use forward 2-gram probabilities that
can be computed from the backward 2-gram using Bayes rule, and the 2nd pass use the given
backward N-gram fully.
When both forward and backward N-grams are specified, the 2-gram part in the forward
N-gram and all backward N-gram will be combined into single bingram file. The forward
2-gram will be applied for the 1st pass and backward N-gram for the 2nd pass. Note that
both N-gram should be trained in the same corpus with same parameters (i.e. cut-off
thresholds), with same vocabulary.
The old binary N-gram produced by mkbingram of version 3.x and earlier can be used in
Julius-4, but you can convert the old version to the new version by specifying it as input
of current mkbingram by option "-d".
Please note that binary N-gram file converted by mkbingram of version 4.0 and later cannot
be read by older Julius 3.x.
OPTIONS
-nlr forward_ngram.arpa
Read in a forward (left-to-right) word N-gram file in ARPA standard format.
-nrl backward_ngram.arpa
Read in a backward (right-to-left) word N-gram file in ARPA standard format.
-d old_bingram_file
Read in a binary N-gram file.
-swap
Swap BOS word <s> and EOS word </s> in N-gram.
output_bingram_file
binary N-gram file name to output.
EXAMPLES
Convert a set of forward and backward N-gram in ARPA format into Julius binary form:
Convert a single forward 4-gram in ARPA format into a binary file:
Convert old binary N-gram file to current format:
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