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EMMCVPR
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Exploiting Inference for Approximate Parameter Learning in Discriminative Fields: An Empirical Study
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...
Sanjiv Kumar, Jonas August, Martial Hebert
ICASSP
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
An empirical study of automatic accent classification
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...
IBPRIA
2003
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Smoothing Techniques for Tree-k-Grammar-Based Natural Language Modeling
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...
Jose L. Verdú-Mas, Jorge Calera-Rubio, Rafa...
ECOOP
2000
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Empirical Study of Object-Layout Strategies and Optimization Techniques
Althoughthereisalargebodyofresearchonthetimeoverheadofobject oriented programs, there is little work on memory overhead. This paper takes an empirical approach to the study of this...
Natalie Eckel, Joseph Gil
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
A general optimization framework for smoothing language models on graph structures
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...
Qiaozhu Mei, Duo Zhang, ChengXiang Zhai