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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Andreas Stolcke <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, June 6, 2018 1:27 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'Michael Campbell'
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:mcampbell@veritone.com"><mcampbell@veritone.com></a><br>
<b>Cc:</b> '<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:srilm-user@speech.sri.com">srilm-user@speech.sri.com</a>'
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:srilm-user@speech.sri.com"><srilm-user@speech.sri.com></a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: question about lattice-tool<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Michael,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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).<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Andreas<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Michael Campbell <<a
href="mailto:mcampbell@veritone.com" moz-do-not-send="true">mcampbell@veritone.com</a>>
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, June 6, 2018 1:10 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Andreas Stolcke <<a
href="mailto:Andreas.Stolcke@microsoft.com"
moz-do-not-send="true">Andreas.Stolcke@microsoft.com</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> question about lattice-tool<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello Andreas,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I am using the SRILM "lattice-tool"
utility, for which you are listed as an author.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I am new to this, and the documentation
does not say whether or not "lattice-tool" requires<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">a Language Model to be input in order
to use Viterbi or Posterior algorithms on a lattice of
words.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> * I created a lattice of words,
and would like to see the most probable sentence. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> * If I use Viterbi, I get a
result, <b>without using any language model options</b>.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>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"? </b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you very much for any feedback.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">All the best,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Mike<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">-- <o:p></o:p></p>
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