[SRILM User List] SRILM parameters

[Andreas Stolcke]

Casey Kennington wrote:
> Andreas,
>
> I've emailed you before and you were quick to response, so I am hoping 
> I will get another quick response! This time it's about how SRILM 
> calculates perplexity. I know the FAQ says:
>
> ppl = 10^(-logprob / (words - OOVs + sentences))
>
> But what exactly is your logprob? Is that a single logprob of the 
> entire eval corpus? Is it an average logprob of all sentences?

logprob is what ngram -ppl prints out after "logprob=" , i.e., the sum 
of the log probabilities over the entire test set.

Andreas

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