Word Insertion Penalty

[Andreas Stolcke]

文筱 苑 wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I am wondering if I could set word insertion penalty when rescoring a
> N-best list using SRILM tool, and if yes, how?
Word insertion penalty and other score weight parameters (like the LM
weight) are
typically optimized on held-out test set, by minimizing the empirical
word error.

The program nbest-optimize serves exactly this purpose.

Andreas