MKBINGRAM(1)

NAME
mkbingram - make binary N-gram from two arpa LMs

SYNOPSIS
mkbingram 2gram.arpa rev3gram.arpa bingram

DESCRIPTION
mkbingram makes a binary N-gram file for Julius from word 2-gram and reverse word 3-gram LMs in ARPA standard format. Using the binary file, the initial startup of Julius becomes much faster.

Note that the word 2-gram and reverse word 3-gram should be trained in the same corpus, same parameters (i.e. cut-off thresholds) and have the same vocabulary.

mkbingram can read gzipped ARPA file.

OPTIONS
word 2-gram file in ARPA standard format. reverse word 3-gram in ARPA standard format. binary N-gram file (Julius format).

USAGE
Instead of two ARPA LMs with option "-nlr" and "-nrl", you can specify the generated binary N-gram file using option "-d" like this:

SEE ALSO
julius(1)

AUTHORS
LEE Akinobu (NAIST, Japan)
contact: julius@kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp

LICENSE
Same as Julius.