Class-Based n-gram Models of Natural Language

Peter F. Brown, Vincent J. Della Pietra, Peter V. deSouza et al., 1992. Computational Linguistics.

Introduces what became known as Brown clustering: grouping words into classes by the words around them so that a class-based n-gram language model loses as little information as possible.

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What it's used for here

The methods surveys list Brown clustering as an untried way to induce word classes in the Voynich text.

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Mathematics, linguistics, inductive methods

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Brown, P. F., Della Pietra, V. J., deSouza, P. V., Lai, J. C., & Mercer, R. L. (1992). Class-Based n-gram Models of Natural Language. Computational Linguistics. https://aclanthology.org/J92-4003/

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Brown, Peter F. et al.. “Class-Based n-gram Models of Natural Language.” Computational Linguistics (1992).