13.15.2 Use

HSGEN is invoked by the command line

   HSGen [options] wdnet dictfile

where dictfile is a dictionary containing all of the words used in the word network stored in wdnet. This dictionary is only used as a word list, the pronunciations are ignored.

The available options are

-l
When this option is set, each generated sentence is preceded by a line number.

-n N
This sets the total number of sentences generated to be N (default value 100).

-q
Set quiet mode. This suppresses the printing of sentences. It is useful when estimating the entropy of L(G) since the accuracy of the latter depends on the number of sentences generated.

-s
Compute word network statistics. When set, the number of network nodes, the vocabulary size, the empirical entropy, the perplexity, the average sentence length, the minimum sentence length and the maximum sentence length are computed and printed on the standard output.

HSLAB also supports the standard options -A, -C, -D, -S, -T, and -V as described in section 4.4.