[SRILM User List] Detailed description of ngram-count's -skip option

[Sander Maijers]

Hello everyone,

Where can I find more detailed information about the word skipping 
algorithm provided by ngram-count? Thus far I found this:

"Skip language models — In this LM, words in the history are 
probabilistically skipped, allowing more distant words to take their 
places. The skipping probabilities associated with each word are 
estimated using expectation maximization." (In SRILM — AN EXTENSIBLE 
LANGUAGE MODELING TOOLKIT, Stolcke, 2002)

As I want to refer to this I prefer published scientific work authored 
by Andreas Stolcke.

Best,
Sander Maijers