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# README
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# Language model & lexicon examples
# using command-line executables in lm/

# To print and display FSTs, 
# make sure you have OpenFst binaries in your PATH, for example:
#   export PATH=$PATH:~/Sources/UBM-ASR/branches/clean/openfst-1.2/bin

# If you have X installed in your local machine, you can display
# FSTs from merlin by ssh'ing with X forwarding, for example:
#    ssh -X qboulianne@merlin

# The following commands and examples assume that your are
# in working directory UBM-ASR/branches/clean/src/lm

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# Language model FST (G)

# The command-line utility for 
# creating a language model FST from an arpa file is
# "arpa2fst".

# A summary of options and usage can be displayed with:
./arpa2fst --help

# Read an arpa file to produce an FST with symbol tables:
./arpa2fst < input.arpa > grammar.fst

# Print it or display it:
fstprint grammar.fst
fstdraw grammar.fst | dotty -

# Note that arpa2fst will create a word symbol table
# from all the words are in the ARPA file.
# You can save this symbol table in text format
# for examination or later reuse.
fstprint --save_isymbols=grammar.syms grammar.fst > /dev/null

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# Lexicon (L)

# The command-line utility for
# creating a lexicon FST from a text file is
# "lex2fst".

# A summary of options and usage can be displayed with:
./lex2fst --help

# Read a lexicon file (containing prononciation probabilities)
# and produce an FST with symbol tables.
# By default it will have disambiguation markers,
#   optional silence between words,
#   and FST weights will be -log(prob).
./lex2fst < prob_input.lex > lexicon.fst

# Print it or display it
fstprint lexicon.fst
fstdraw lexicon.fst | dotty -

# To produce one without markers (and also smaller):
./lex2fst --nodisamb < prob_input.lex > lexicon_nomarkers.fst

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# Combining lexicon and grammar

# lgrecipe.cc is an example recipe for building det(LoG)
# in C++ using calls to functions in lm/kaldi-lm.a
# Here we use a large lexicon and language model from last year's.
# First get input files:
export MDIR=/homes/eva/q/qgoel/englishModels
cp $MDIR/lm_callhome_gigaword_switchboard_web.hd.dct largelexicon.dct
gunzip -c $MDIR/lm_callhome_gigaword_switchboard_web.3gram.arpa.gz > largelm.arpa

# Set memory limits (by default limited to 400 MB). Make it 4 GB.
ulimit -m 4000000 -v 8000000
./lgrecipe largelexicon.dct largelm.arpa detlg.fst

# Check its size: should be close to 13 M arcs and 8 M nodes
fstinfo detlg.fst | head -15

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# Expanding nested grammars

# replace-example is a use-case example that creates
# small grammars from text files. These grammars
# refer to other grammars using non-terminal symbols.
# The result is the fully expanded grammar FST,
# where each non-terminal has been expanded entirely
# to non-terminals.
cd examples

# Example 1 : create the expanded grammar
../replace-example input3.txt CREATURE.txt > input3.fst

# and generate a random sentence from the expanded grammar
fstrandgen input3.fst | fstrmepsilon | fstprint | cut -f 4

# Example 2 : create the expanded grammar
../replace-example input4.txt DAYOFMONTH.txt MONTH.txt YEAR.txt YEARDATE.txt > input4.fst

# and generate random sentence
fstrandgen input4.fst | fstproject --project_output | fstrmepsilon | fstprint | cut -f 4

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# TODO: Adapt README.testfiles as an example of how to create
#  an arpa language model and evaluate its score / perplexity.