From 369ca9dce7e13402ede4026e22a1b8f29e661a96 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tarun Kumar Vangani <reachtarunhere@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2016 21:10:17 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Added Default Parameter to Support Smoothing

---
 text.py | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/text.py b/text.py
index 39bbb921f..57a19d2ab 100644
--- a/text.py
+++ b/text.py
@@ -32,10 +32,10 @@ class NgramTextModel(CountingProbDist):
     You can add, sample or get P[(word1, ..., wordn)]. The method P.samples(n)
     builds up an n-word sequence; P.add and P.add_sequence add data."""
 
-    def __init__(self, n, observation_sequence=[]):
+    def __init__(self, n, observation_sequence=[], default=0):
         # In addition to the dictionary of n-tuples, cond_prob is a
         # mapping from (w1, ..., wn-1) to P(wn | w1, ... wn-1)
-        CountingProbDist.__init__(self)
+        CountingProbDist.__init__(self, default=default)
         self.n = n
         self.cond_prob = defaultdict()
         self.add_sequence(observation_sequence)