N-gram Smoothing on Expected Fractional Counts

MSR-TR-2018-16 |

This is a companion document to our Interspeech 2018 paper “What to Expect from Expected Kneser-Ney Smoothing”. It provides additional details and considerations regarding derivation, optimizations and extensions of the n-gram smoothing on expected fractional counts, a technique originally introduced in Zhang et al 2014.