njsmith/pysrilm — explained in plain English
Analysis updated 2026-07-17 · repo last pushed 2014-10-04
Load a pre-trained SRILM language model and query the probability of a word given prior context.
Calculate the total probability of an entire sentence using a loaded SRILM model.
Integrate a legacy SRILM model into a larger Python NLP application or pipeline.
Work directly with integer vocabulary IDs to skip string-to-number conversion when processing large amounts of text.
| njsmith/pysrilm | hiangx-robotics/metafine | mercuriustech/odyseus-spatial-vlm | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stars | 70 | 70 | 70 |
| Language | Python | Python | Python |
| Last pushed | 2014-10-04 | — | — |
| Maintenance | Dormant | — | — |
| Setup difficulty | moderate | hard | hard |
| Complexity | 3/5 | 5/5 | 4/5 |
| Audience | researcher | researcher | developer |
Figures from each repo's GitHub metadata at analysis time.
Requires an existing pre-trained SRILM model file and the SRILM toolkit installed.
This is a Python wrapper that lets you use language models in your Python code. A language model is a tool that predicts the probability of words appearing in a certain order, it's the kind of thing that powers autocomplete, spell-checkers, and text-generation systems. This wrapper specifically connects to SRILM, an older but widely-used language modeling toolkit from SRI International, so you can load a pre-trained model and ask it questions like "how likely is the word 'brown' to appear after 'the quick'?" The wrapper works by loading an SRILM model file into memory and exposing simple Python functions to query it. Instead of digging through command-line tools or text files, you can now write Python code that directly asks the model for probabilities. You can check the probability of individual words in context, or ask for the total probability of an entire sentence. Under the hood, the model converts words to numbers internally for efficiency, and the wrapper exposes that too, so if you're processing a lot of text, you can skip the string-to-number conversion step and work directly with integer IDs. Who would use this? Anyone training or deploying language models on older systems or in legacy environments. Researchers working with SRILM might want to prototype ideas in Python before moving to production. NLP engineers building text analysis pipelines could use this to integrate pre-existing SRILM models into larger Python applications. The README is straightforward and shows concrete examples, you load a model, ask for word probabilities given some context, and optionally work with the vocabulary mapping. The author notes this is intentionally minimal ("bare-bones"), it does what's needed without extra complexity, making it lightweight and easy to understand.
A minimal Python wrapper around SRILM, an older language modeling toolkit, letting you query word and sentence probabilities from a pre-trained model directly in Python code.
Mainly Python. The stack also includes Python, SRILM, C.
Dormant — no commits in 2+ years (last push 2014-10-04).
Setup difficulty is rated moderate, with roughly 30min to a first successful run.
Mainly researcher.
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