Because Mi'kmaq is a polysynthetic language, we consider character-level and subwordlevel language models, in addition to more-conventional (word) n-gram models.
we consider the following approaches to language modelling: KenLM We use KenLM (Heafield et al., 2013) to build conventional (word) n-gram language models with modified Kneser-Ney smoothing, for differing orders of n. char-rnn We consider a character-level LSTM language model.