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ACL
2009
13 years 3 months ago
Semi-supervised Learning of Dependency Parsers using Generalized Expectation Criteria
In this paper, we propose a novel method for semi-supervised learning of nonprojective log-linear dependency parsers using directly expressed linguistic prior knowledge (e.g. a no...
Gregory Druck, Gideon S. Mann, Andrew McCallum
AAAI
1998
13 years 6 months ago
Highest Utility First Search Across Multiple Levels of Stochastic Design
Manydesign problems are solved using multiple levels of abstraction, wherea design at one level has combinatorially manychildren at the next level. A stochastic optimization metho...
Louis I. Steinberg, J. Storrs Hall, Brian D. Davis...
TIP
2008
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13 years 5 months ago
Variational Bayesian Image Restoration Based on a Product of t-Distributions Image Prior
Image priors based on products have been recognized to offer many advantages because they allow simultaneous enforcement of multiple constraints. However, they are inconvenient for...
Giannis K. Chantas, Nikolas P. Galatsanos, Aristid...
IPM
2008
100views more  IPM 2008»
13 years 5 months ago
Contextual factors affecting the utility of surrogates within exploratory search
In this paper we investigate how information surrogates might be useful in exploratory search and what information it is useful for a surrogate to contain. By comparing assessment...
Ian Ruthven, Mark Baillie, Leif Azzopardi, Ralf Bi...
EDM
2009
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13 years 3 months ago
Using Dirichlet priors to improve model parameter plausibility
Student modeling is a widely used approach to make inference about a student's attributes like knowledge, learning, etc. If we wish to use these models to analyze and better u...
Dovan Rai, Yue Gong, Joseph Beck