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ACL
2007
13 years 5 months ago
A Comparative Study of Parameter Estimation Methods for Statistical Natural Language Processing
This paper presents a comparative study of five parameter estimation algorithms on four NLP tasks. Three of the five algorithms are well-known in the computational linguistics com...
Jianfeng Gao, Galen Andrew, Mark Johnson, Kristina...
GECCO
2003
Springer
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13 years 8 months ago
Studying the Advantages of a Messy Evolutionary Algorithm for Natural Language Tagging
The process of labeling each word in a sentence with one of its lexical categories (noun, verb, etc) is called tagging and is a key step in parsing and many other language processi...
Lourdes Araujo
ACL
2008
13 years 5 months ago
Trainable Generation of Big-Five Personality Styles through Data-Driven Parameter Estimation
Previous work on statistical language generation has primarily focused on grammaticality and naturalness, scoring generation possibilities according to a language model or user fe...
François Mairesse, Marilyn A. Walker
JMLR
2012
11 years 6 months ago
Noise-Contrastive Estimation of Unnormalized Statistical Models, with Applications to Natural Image Statistics
We consider the task of estimating, from observed data, a probabilistic model that is parameterized by a finite number of parameters. In particular, we are considering the situat...
Michael Gutmann, Aapo Hyvärinen
DAGM
2008
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Natural Language Understanding by Combining Statistical Methods and Extended Context-Free Grammars
This paper introduces an novel framework for speech understanding using extended context-free grammars (ECFGs) by combining statistical methods and rule based knowledge. By only us...
Stefan Schwärzler, Joachim Schenk, Frank Wall...