Witten–Bell smoothing

GPTKB entity

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf smoothing technique
gptkbp:appliesTo n-gram models
gptkbp:category gptkb:machine_learning
probability estimation
gptkbp:describedBy gptkb:Text_Compression_(book)
gptkbp:form P*(w|h) = C(h,w)/(C(h)+T(h)) if C(h)>0, else T(h)/(Z(h)*(C(h)+T(h)))
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Witten–Bell smoothing
gptkbp:proposedBy gptkb:Ian_H._Witten
gptkb:Timothy_C._Bell
1991
gptkbp:purpose estimate probabilities for unseen events
gptkbp:relatedTo gptkb:Kneser–Ney_smoothing
gptkb:Good–Turing_smoothing
Laplace smoothing
gptkbp:usedIn natural language processing
statistical language modeling
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Good–Turing_smoothing
gptkbp:bfsLayer 7