Deleted interpolation

[Andreas Stolcke]

In message <20041119113148.9476ab65 at cronus.aiia.csd.auth.gr>you wrote:
> Is deleted interpolation according to Jelinek's Method supported in SRILM.
> 
> Can anyone give me some details?

Deleted interpolation is not implemented in SRILM, the reason being mainly
that hardly anybody uses it these days.  Other smoothing methods that don't 
require held-out data (like Kneser-Ney) have been shown to be almost 
always superior (cf. the Chen & Goodman paper on smoothing methods).

--Andreas