PM522a: INTRODUCTION TO THE THEORY OF STATISTICS

In order for a model to assign higher probability to actual and existing sentences, it must assign less probability to other sentences (since the total amount of probability mass that it has at its disposal to assign totals up to 1.000, and no more). So of course it assigns lower probability to a lot of unobserved strings. ................
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