Re: IBM Pennant Systems survey

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From: Lee Hetherington
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 20:21

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I'd guess that they're going to use the documents to build statistical
language models, probably for speech recognition purposes.  I know
that they've collected literally millions of words of internal memos
and email for just that purpose.  Basically, they estimate the
probability of a word given the surrounding context and need millions
of words to get reliable estimates for still longer strings of words.

Why they don't tell you, I don't know.  This is just my educated
guess.  I have nothing to do with IBM.


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                                Lee Hetherington
                                ilh@lcs.mit.edu

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