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ASF GitHub Bot commented on OPENNLP-986: ---------------------------------------- Github user asfgit closed the pull request at: https://github.com/apache/opennlp/pull/124 > Use stupid backoff by default in NGramLanguageModel > --------------------------------------------------- > > Key: OPENNLP-986 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OPENNLP-986 > Project: OpenNLP > Issue Type: Improvement > Reporter: Tommaso Teofili > Assignee: Tommaso Teofili > Fix For: 1.8.0 > > > {{NGramLanguageModel}} is already using [Stupid > Backoff|http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/D07-1090.pdf] discounting when it > contains more than 1M ngrams. > However since the not very good performance of Laplace smoothing for smaller > models, it'd be better to simply use Stupid Backoff in all cases. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.15#6346)