Introduction to the Special Issue on Statistical Language Modeling
ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing | , Vol 3(2): pp. 87-93
The goal of statistical language modeling (SLM) is to estimate the likelihood (or probability) of a word string. SLM is fundamental to many natural language applications like automatic speech recognition (ASR) [Jelinek 1990], statistical machine translation (SMT) [Brown et al. 1993], and Asian language text input [Gao et al. 2002a]