July 29, 2008

A method and apparatus are provided for storing parameters of a deleted interpolation language model as parameters of a backoff language model. In particular, the parameters of the deleted interpolation language model are stored in the standard ARPA format. Under one embodiment, the deleted interpolation language model parameters are formed using fractional counts.

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July 29, 2008

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G06F   17/27   (20060101)   G10L   15/00   (20060101)   G10L   15/28   (20060101)  

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