Generative topic models such as LDA are limited by their inability to utilize nontrivial input features to enhance their performance, and many topic models assume that topic assig...
Most approaches to topic modeling assume an independence between documents that is frequently violated. We present an topic model that makes use of one or more user-specified grap...
This paper shows how to improve Hidden Conditional Random Fields (HCRFs) for phone classification by applying various speaker adaptation techniques. These include Maximum A Poste...
Yun-Hsuan Sung, Constantinos Boulis, Daniel Jurafs...
This paper presents multi-conditional learning (MCL), a training criterion based on a product of multiple conditional likelihoods. When combining the traditional conditional proba...
Andrew McCallum, Chris Pal, Gregory Druck, Xuerui ...
Abstract. Recently, there has been increasing interests in applying aspect models (e.g., PLSA and LDA) in image segmentation. However, these models ignore spatial relationships amo...