Python interface to ARPA files

language-model, n-gram, nlp, python

Solution

I found a nice under-development package called pynlpl which does exactly what i need, with very few dependencies (libxml2 is about enough), and it gives a pure pythonic implementation to ARPA files

Problem

I'm looking for a pythonic interface to load ARPA files (back-off language models) and use them to evaluate some text, e.g. get its log-probability, perplexity etc. I don't need to generate the ARPA file in Python, only to use it for querying. Does anybody have a recommended package? I already saw kenlm and swig-srilm, but the first is very hard to set up in Windows and the second seems un-maintained anymore.

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