=head1 NAME

slmthread - threads the language model

=head1 SYNOPSIS

B<slmthread> I<primitive_slm> I<threaded_slm>

=head1 DESCRIPTION

B<slmthread> add back-off-state for each slm node in the I<primitive_slm>. 
Also it compresses 32-bit float into 16 bit representation. These processing 
speeds up the looking up.

The I<primitive_slm> is always genreated by B<slmprune>. And 
the I<threaded_slm> can be used to feed B<slmseg> as a reference to segment 
Chinese text.

=head1 AUTHOR

Originally written by Phill.Zhang E<lt>phill.zhang@sun.comE<gt>.
Currently maintained by Kov.Chai E<lt>tchaikov@gmail.comE<gt>.

=head1 SEE ALSO

B<slmprune>(1), B<slmseg>(1).