Exercises

LM-C07-C-001

If an event is unseen in a plain count table, what probability can the unsmoothed model assign to it?

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LM-C07-C-002

Counts are 4, 0, 1. After add-one smoothing, what is the middle count?

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LM-C07-C-003

If add-one smoothing is applied to a 5-token vocabulary, how many total count units are added?

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LM-C07-C-004

Weights 0.7 and 0.3 are used for interpolation. What is their sum?

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LM-C07-C-005

In a backoff path from 4-gram to trigram to bigram to unigram, how many model orders can be used?

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