What?
When segmenting spoken language into words, we have to assume if sounds are part of a new word or not.
How will we calculate it?
Conditional Probability!! Woooohoooo!! So, for the word “gdog”, the probability of the sound “d” given the sound of “g” is right before it.
Maths Example:
Suppose the phoneme [ð] (pronounced “th”) occurs 200,000 times in a text:
- 190,000 times are before a vowel (as in the, this);
- 200 times are before
[m].