ISCA Archive ICSLP 1996
ISCA Archive ICSLP 1996

Viterbi beam search with layered bigrams

David M. Goblirsch

We outline an implementation of Viterbi beam search that incorporates layered bigrams. Layered bigrams are class bigrams in which some nodes are themselves bigrams, resulting in a recursive structure. The implementation is in C++ and involves a hierarchy of classes. The paper outlines the main concepts and the corresponding C++ classes.