[SRILM-Announce] SRILM 1.5.9 released

[Andreas Stolcke]

The latest release of SRILM is now available from 
http://www.speech.sri.com/projects/srilm/download.html .

Enjoy,

Andreas

CHANGES in this release:

1.5.9   24 August 2009

        Functionality:

        * Added ngram-count -text-has-weights option to scale counts on a
        per-sentence basis.

        * LMStats::countString() and NgramStats::countSentence() methods
        generalized to take optional weight string argument (to support the
        above change).

        * Added compile-time option to generate position-independent code
        (make MAKE_PIC=yes, see INSTALL file).

        * Added support for xz-compressed files (.xz files offer better
        compression than .gz at the expense of time and memory).
        The xz tool has to be installed separately (http://tukaani.org/xz).

        Bug fixes:

        * wlat-to-pfsg generates NULL output labels for initial/final nodes
        with sentence start/end tags (because PFSGs encode those implicitly).

        * TaggedVocab: check and report if number of tags/words exceeds max.
        Make number of bits allocated for tags/words proportional to
        word size. Parse word/tag strings such that last (not the first)
        slash (/) character is treated as the delimiter.

        * Documented the lattice-tool -ngrams-time-tolerance option that had
        been previously implemented but omitted from the man page.