ADAM BRAZDA
Systems Engineering
SIU '26
N-Gram Model
Algorithm_Optimization_AuditPython Pattern Recognition // Bigram & Trigram
Execution_Environment
Python // NumPy // Regex // Jupyter
Optimization_Log
// Data_Cleansing
Analyzed a subset of the 1 Billion Word Dataset. Engineered custom Regex pipelines to tokenize and normalize the corpus, mapping unknown tokens to safely handle data sparsity.
// Probabilistic_Architecture
Developed Bigram and Trigram models from scratch. Resolved zero-probability bottlenecks through Add-K (Laplace) smoothing and Stupid Backoff.
// Final_Optimization
Evaluated accuracy via Perplexity (PP) in log-space. Achieved a 4500x improvement in Trigram performance by migrating to optimized Linear Interpolation.
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