Abstract. Estimation of parameters of random field models from labeled training data is crucial for their good performance in many image analysis applications. In this paper, we p...
This paper extends language identification (LID) techniques to a large scale accent classification task: 23-way classification of foreign-accented English. We find that a pure...
Ghinwa F. Choueiter, Geoffrey Zweig, Patrick Nguye...
Abstract. In a previous work, a new probabilistic context-free grammar (PCFG) model for natural language parsing derived from a tree bank corpus has been introduced. The model esti...
Althoughthereisalargebodyofresearchonthetimeoverheadofobject oriented programs, there is little work on memory overhead. This paper takes an empirical approach to the study of this...
Recent work on language models for information retrieval has shown that smoothing language models is crucial for achieving good retrieval performance. Many different effective smo...