The Phrase Break Model

The phrase break model is trained by examining the database again, but this time ignoring the POS information and only examining junctures. A n-gram of order N is constructed which represents the probability of different sequences of junctures. Using J^N_i-1 to represent the the previous sequence of N junctures, we have:

P(j_i | J^N_i-1) = P(j_i | j_i-1, j_i-2, j_i-3,...,j_i-N+1) (3)