[SRILM User List] how do the script compute-best-mix work?

[Andreas Stolcke]

On 12/14/2012 12:51 PM, yasser hifny wrote:
> Hello,
> I would like to ask how do the script compute-best-mix work? I mean 
> what is the idea behind it. Can you refer to any paper explain how it 
> works.
It's an EM algorithm, where the underlying mixture distributions (the 
individual LMs) are held fixed.

You can find the general theory at 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixture_model .

Andreas

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