In particular, the model has no notion of identity of symbols across the languages!
we transmit objects, or events, e, in the event space E-which is in this case: We do this by means of Bayesian marginal likelihood, or prequential coding, see e.g., (Kontkanen et al., 1996), giving the total code length as: The count c(e) is the number of times event e occurs in a complete alignment of the corpus; in particular, c(# : #) = N occurs as many times as there are word pairs.