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+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+# contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+# this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+# The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+# (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+# the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+FROM python:3.6.5
+
+
+LABEL Description="Builds the KenLM library for estimating language models"
+
+RUN apt-get update && \
+    apt-get install -y \
+            cmake \
+            git \
+            g++ \
+            libboost-all-dev \
+            libbz2-dev \
+            libeigen3-dev \
+            liblzma-dev \            
+            libz-dev \
+            make \
+            curl
+
+RUN curl -L https://kheafield.com/code/kenlm.tar.gz | tar -xzvf -
+
+WORKDIR /kenlm
+RUN mkdir -p build
+WORKDIR build
+RUN cmake ..
+RUN make -j 4
+WORKDIR /kenlm
+
+# Optional python package. Comment if not required
+RUN pip install https://github.com/kpu/kenlm/archive/master.zip