title: Python interface to ARPA files
body: <p>I'm looking for a pythonic interface to load ARPA files (back-off language models) and use them to evaluate some text, e.g. get its log-probability, perplexity etc.</p>
  
  <p>I don't need to generate the ARPA file in Python, only to use it for querying.</p>
  
  <p>Does anybody have a recommended package?
  I already saw <a href="https://github.com/kpu/kenlm">kenlm</a> and <a href="https://github.com/desilinguist/swig-srilm">swig-srilm</a>, but the first is very hard to set up in Windows and the second seems un-maintained anymore.</p>