[SRILM User List] make-big-lm merge-batch-counts mv error?

[Andreas Stolcke]

On 2/26/2012 4:24 PM, L. Amber Wilcox-O'Hearn wrote:
> I finally figured out my error here.  I had passed make-big-lm an
> order 3 counts file, not an order *upto and including* 3.  In
> response, make-kn-counts silently generated no output, and then there
> was no file to mv.
Good.  Also, you want to use -kndiscount,  not -kndiscount3.   With the 
latter, you would only apply KN discounting to trigrams, but that 
doesn't really make sense since KN discounting relies on modifying the 
lower-order ngram distributions.

Andreas