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Word Trigram Model (Fluency)

We can evaluate English sentences on two points; adequacy and fluency. We believe that fluency is related to language model $ P(E)$. Thus we used a normal trigram model and did not use a higher $ N$-gram model. In general, when we use a higher order $ N$-gram, the number of parameters dramatically increase. It occurs that, the reliability for each parameter becomes low.

We believe that a trigram model is the best language model to express fluency.



Jin'ichi Murakami 2007-11-12