The probability of a sequence of m words can be transformed  into a conditional probability: In practice, we can assume the probability of a word only depends on its previous word (bi-gram assumption).
the probability of a sequence can be approximated as: We collect person and location names from the Buddhist Authority Database 1 and the known Buddhist transliteration terms from The Buddhist Translation Lexicon (翻 譯 名 義 集) 2 to create a dataset with 4,301 transliterations for our bi-gram language model.