[SRILM User List] FW: question about lattice-tool

[Andreas Stolcke]

*From:* Andreas Stolcke
*Sent:* Wednesday, June 6, 2018 1:27 PM
*To:* 'Michael Campbell' <mcampbell at veritone.com>
*Cc:* 'srilm-user at speech.sri.com' <srilm-user at speech.sri.com>
*Subject:* RE: question about lattice-tool

Michael,

Lattice-tool does not require a language model.   If non is given, the 
scores contained in the lattice will be used for decoding 
(-viterbi-decode, -nbest-decode, -posterior-decode) and confusion 
network building (-write-mesh).

Andreas

*From:* Michael Campbell <mcampbell at veritone.com 
<mailto:mcampbell at veritone.com>>
*Sent:* Wednesday, June 6, 2018 1:10 PM
*To:* Andreas Stolcke <Andreas.Stolcke at microsoft.com 
<mailto:Andreas.Stolcke at microsoft.com>>
*Subject:* question about lattice-tool

Hello Andreas,

I am using the SRILM "lattice-tool" utility, for which you are listed as 
an author.

I am new to this, and the documentation does not say whether or not 
"lattice-tool" requires

a Language Model to be input in order to use Viterbi or Posterior 
algorithms on a lattice of words.

      * I created a lattice of words, and would like to see the most 
probable sentence.

      * If I use Viterbi, I get a result, *without using any language 
model options*.

*Does "lattice-tool" use a built-in language model to give that result, 
or is the result 'nonsense' since I am not inputting a language model 
into "lattice-tool"? *

Thank you very much for any feedback.

All the best,

Mike

-- 

*Michael Campbell*
mcampbell at veritone.com <mailto:youremail at veritone.com>

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