This work was supported by NSF IIS1218282, NSF IIS1218749, NSF IIS1111142, NIH R01GM093156, the U. S. Army Research Laboratory and the U. S. Army Research Office under contract/grant number W911NF-10-1-0533, the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program under Grant No.
to the few previous low rank language modeling approaches, PLRE is not orthogonal to n-gram models, but rather a general framework where existing n-gram smoothing methods such as Kneser-Ney smoothing are special cases.