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''IRSTLM'' is a free and open source exact statistical language model using memory-mapping. The language models are compatible with those created with the closed-source SRILM Tooolkit.

See the homepage at https://hlt-mt.fbk.eu/technologies/irstlm


==Installation==
see https://github.com/irstlm-team/irstlm
or
<pre>
svn checkout svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/irstlm/code/trunk irstlm
cd irstlm
cmake -G "Unix Makefiles" -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/path/prefix
make -j4
make install
</pre>

if you get <code>stdlib.h</code> error, see https://github.com/irstlm-team/irstlm/issues/22

== Make a language model ==
<pre>
# if you specified /path/prefix previously
export IRSTLM=/path/prefix
# else
export IRSTLM=/usr/local

$IRSTLM/bin/build-lm.sh -i incorpus.txt -o out.lm.gz -t tmp/
</pre>

==See also==
* [[Moses]] (includes alternative LM system KenLM)
* [[Using GIZA++]]
* [[RandLM]] - a randomised LM, based on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom_filter Bloom Filters]

[[Category:Tools]]