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135 lines
4.1 KiB
Groff
.\" $Id: ppl-scripts.1,v 1.9 2019/09/09 22:35:37 stolcke Exp $
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.TH ppl-scripts 1 "$Date: 2019/09/09 22:35:37 $" "SRILM Tools"
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.SH NAME
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ppl-scripts, add-ppls, compare-ppls, compute-best-mix, compute-best-sentence-mix, filter-event-counts, hits-from-log, ppl-from-log, subtract-ppls \- manipulate perplexities
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.nf
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\fBadd-ppls\fP [ \fIppl-file\fP ... ]
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\fBsubtract-ppls\fP \fIppl-file1\fP [ \fIppl-file2\fP ... ]
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\fBppl-from-log\fP [ \fIppl-file\fP ... ]
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\fBhits-from-log\fP [ \fIppl-file\fP ... ]
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\fBcompare-ppls\fP [ \fBmindelta=\fP\fID\fP ] \fIppl-file1\fP \fIppl-file2\fP
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\fBcompute-best-mix\fP [ \fBlambda='\fP\fIl1 l2\fP ...\fB'\fP ] [ \fBprecision=\fP\fIP\fP ] \\
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\fIppl-file1\fP [ \fIppl-file2\fP ... ]
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\fBcompute-best-sentence-mix\fP [ \fBlambda='\fP\fIl1 l2\fP ...\fB'\fP ] [ \fBprecision=\fP\fIP\fP ] \\
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[ \fBaddone=\fP\fIc\fP ] \fIppl-file1\fP [ \fIppl-file2\fP ... ]
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\fBfilter-event-counts\fP [ \fBorder=\fP\fIN\fP ] [ \fBescape=\fP\fIstring\P ] [ \fIcounts\fP ... ]
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.fi
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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These scripts process the output of the
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.BR ngram (1)
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option
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.B \-ppl
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to extract various useful information.
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They are particularly convenient in analyzing the performance (perplexity) of
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language models on specific subsets of the test data,
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or to compare and combine multiple models.
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.PP
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.B add-ppls
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takes several ppl output files and computes an aggregate perplexity and
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corpus statistics.
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Its output is suitable for subsequent manipulation by
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.B add-ppls
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or
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.BR subtract-ppls .
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.PP
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.B subtract-ppls
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similarly computes an aggregate perplexity by removing the
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statistics of zero or more
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.I ppl-file2
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from those in
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.IR ppl-file1 .
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Its output is suitable for subsequent manipulation by
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.B add-ppls
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or
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.BR subtract-ppls .
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.PP
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.B ppl-from-log
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recomputes the total perplexities and statistics from individual
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lines in
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.B "ngram \-debug 2 \-ppl"
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output.
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Combined with some filtering of that output this allows computing
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perplexities on interesting subsets of words.
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.PP
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.B hits-from-log
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computes N-gram hit rates from
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.B "ngram \-debug 2 \-ppl"
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output.
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.PP
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.B compare-ppls
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tallies the number of words for which two language models produce the same,
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higher, or lower probabilities.
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The input files should be
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.B "ngram \-debug 2 \-ppl"
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output for the two models on the same test set.
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The parameter
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.I D
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is the minimum absolute difference for two log probabilities to be
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considered different (the default is 0).
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.PP
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.B compute-best-mix
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takes the output of several
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.B "ngram \-debug 2 \-ppl"
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runs on the same test set and computes the optimal interpolation
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weights for the corresponding models,
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i.e., the weights that minimize the perplexity of an interpolated model.
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Initial weights may be specified as
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.IR "l1 l2 ..." .
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The computation is iterative and stops when the interpolation weights
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change by less than
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.I P
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(default 0.001).
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.PP
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.B compute-best-sentence-mix
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similarly optimizes the weights for sentence-level interpolation of LMs.
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It requires input files generated by
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.BR "ngram \-debug 1 \-ppl" .
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(Sentence-level mixtures can be implemented using the
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.B "ngram \-hmm"
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option, by constructing a suitable HMM structure.)
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The
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.BI addone= c
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option performs Laplace smoothing by adding
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.I c
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to the estimated posterior counts for each model.
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.PP
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.B filter-event-counts
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prepares a count file for for perplexity computation.
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It removes counts that do not represent events to the LM.
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The
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.BR order= N
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option specifies the maximal N-gram order to use.
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The effect of filtering is such that
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.nf
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ngram -order \fIN\fP -lm \fILM\fP -ppl \fITEXT\fP
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.fi
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and
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.nf
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ngram-count -order \fIN\fP -text \fITEXT\fP -write - | \\
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filter-event-counts order=\fIN\fP | \\
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ngram -order \fIN\fP -lm \fILM\fP -counts -
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.fi
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yield the same result.
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The
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.B escape=
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option specifies a string that causes all input lines beginning with
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that string to be passed through
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(useful in combination with
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.BR "ngram \-escape" ).
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.fi
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
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ngram(1), ngram-count(1).
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.SH BUGS
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Most scripts depend on the idiosyncrasies of
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.B "ngram \-ppl"
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output.
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.SH AUTHOR
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Andreas Stolcke <stolcke@icsi.berkeley.edu>
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.br
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Copyright (c) 1995\-2009 SRI International
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.br
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Copyright (c) 2011\-2016 Andreas Stolcke
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.br
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Copyright (c) 2011\-2016 Microsoft Corp.
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