Hi, No, because this is usually a bad idea. Kneser-Ney smoothing conditions lower-order probabilities on having backed off, so a 12-gram model used as a 5-gram will provide you with a properly normalized model, but it's not the distribution you want.
For more on this rant and how to fix it, see my paper: http://kheafield.com/professional/edinburgh/rest_paper.pdf Kenneth On 10/12/14 12:03, Tom Hoar wrote: > I've built some LMs with an order of 12. Is it possible to use the query > command to restrict the scoring to a lower order, for example 5, or do I > need to rebuild the LMs with an order of 5? > _______________________________________________ > Moses-support mailing list > Moses-support@mit.edu > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/moses-support > _______________________________________________ Moses-support mailing list Moses-support@mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/moses-support