Fawaz S. Al-Anziand Dia AbuZeina, Kuwait University, Kuwait

Markov chain theory isan important tool in applied probability that is quite useful in modeling real-world computing applications.For a long time, rresearchers have used Markov chains for data modeling in a wide range of applications that belong to different fields such as computational linguists, image processing, communications,bioinformatics, finance systems, etc. This paper explores the Markov chain theory and its extension hidden Markov models (HMM) in natural language processing (NLP) applications. This paper also presents some aspects related to Markov chains and HMM such as creating transition matrices, calculating data sequence probabilities, and extracting the hidden states.

Markov chains,Hidden Markov Models, computational linguistics, pattern recognition, statistical