MKBINGRAM(1)                                         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  for-
       mat.  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
       2gram.arpa
              word 2-gram file in ARPA standard format.

       rev3gram.arpa
              reverse word 3-gram in ARPA standard format.

       bingram
              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.



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