[SRILM User List] SRILM Missing FIles

[Andreas Stolcke]

Muhammad Shamsuddeen Muhammad wrote:
> I compiled srilm but faced an error while trying to build a language 
> model using a tutorial. The error was that i had the file 
> "ngram-count" missing, while running this command >>
>
> $ $SRILM‐HOME/bin/i686/ngram‐count ‐order 3 ‐interpolate ‐kndiscount 
> ‐unk ‐
> text lm/corpus.lowercased.en ‐lm lm/corpus.lm 
>
> I tried compiling from scratch all over again and it still is missing. 
> According to another tutorial thou, if the following files >>
>
> liboolm.a
> libdstruct.a
> libflm.a
> liblattice.a
> libmisc.a
>
> are created then the installation was successful, and they are all 
> present in my installation.
> So what may be the issue here, and since "ngram-count" is missing from 
> the $SRILM‐HOME/bin/i686/ directory there could be other missing 
> files. Can someone possibly send me a list of all the files present in 
> that directory of a working installation so that i could compare also.

If there are no binaries generated in $SRILM/bin/$MACHINE_TYPE  (with 
ngram-count being one of them)  then you need to follow the checklist 
under frequently asked question A1)  at
http://www.speech.sri.com/projects/srilm/manpages/srilm-faq.7.html

Andreas

>
> Best Regards
>
> -- 
> Muhammad Shamsuddeen Muhammad
>
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