[SRILM User List] -adapt-marginals-beta

[Andreas Stolcke]

Mehdi hoseini wrote:
> hi all,
> can anybody introduce me the paper that "-adapt-marginals-beta" option 
> in "ngram" is implemented based on that?
> best  regards
>  
Please read the documentation before posting to this list. The ngram man 
page says
> -adapt-marginals LM
> Use an LM obtained by adapting the unigram marginals to the values 
> specified in the LM in
> ngram-format(5), using the method described in Kneser et al. (1997). 
> The LM to be adapted is
> that constructed according to the other options.

and the full reference is given at the end of the man page.

Andreas