Created by: mrfox321

If my ground truth is word1 word2..., does the beam search over the space character before the first word?

In other words, how is the prefix space, e.g. blank blank space blank, scored if there are no alphabetic characters in the prefix? I assume this gets scored as zero (or oov) by the external scorer. This leads me to believe that the only possible characters before the first word are alphabet and blank chars.