Python SWIG wrapper for the SRI Language Modeling (SRILM) Toolkit

Use your SRILM language model's from Python. The code is based off Nitin Madnani's wrappers.

Requirements

• GNU make
• Simplified Wrapper and Interface Generator (SWIG)
• Python 2.4+
• SRI Language Modeling Toolkit

Installation

1. Copy the appropriate makefile to Makefile.
2. Modify the environmental variables at the top of Makefile.
3. run make

Usage

 >>> from srilm import LanguageModel
 >>> lm = LanguageModel(lm_directory="/Users/james/languagemodels", vocab_file="gigaword.vocab", lm_file="gigaword.lm", n=3)
 >>> lm.trigram("new", "york", "times")
 -1.0087490081787109
 >>> lm.trigram("new", "york", "city")
 -0.8258976936340332
 >>>

See srilm.py for more details.