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+# This uses the following datasets:
+#
+# 1) Web 1T 5-gram, 10 European Languages, Version 1, Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) catalog number LDC2009T25 and isbn 1-58563-525-1
+# 2) Google Ngram Viewer dataset version 1 from 2009-07-15
+
+input = /path/to/corpus-google-web-1t-5-gram-10-european-languages-version1/data/GERMAN \
+      ; /path/to/corpus-google-books-n-grams-version1/googlebooks-ger-all-20090715
+output = /path/to/out
+temp = /path/to/temp
+lang = de
+lowercase = false
+max-n-gram = 5
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+# This uses the following datasets:
+#
+# 1) Web 1T 5-gram Version 1, Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) catalog number LDC2006T13 and ISBN 1-58563-397-6
+# 2) Google Ngram Viewer dataset version 1 from 2009-07-15
+
+input = /path/to/corpus-google-web-1t-5-gram-version1 \
+      ; /path/to/corpus-google-books-n-grams-version1/googlebooks-eng-all-20090715
+output = /path/to/out
+temp = /path/to/temp
+lang = en
+lowercase = true
+max-n-gram = 5