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AAAI
2008
13 years 7 months ago
Learning and Inference with Constraints
Probabilistic modeling has been a dominant approach in Machine Learning research. As the field evolves, the problems of interest become increasingly challenging and complex. Makin...
Ming-Wei Chang, Lev-Arie Ratinov, Nicholas Rizzolo...
COGSCI
2010
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13 years 5 months ago
A Probabilistic Computational Model of Cross-Situational Word Learning
Words are the essence of communication: they are the building blocks of any language. Learning the meaning of words is thus one of the most important aspects of language acquisiti...
Afsaneh Fazly, Afra Alishahi, Suzanne Stevenson
NAACL
2010
13 years 3 months ago
Painless Unsupervised Learning with Features
We show how features can easily be added to standard generative models for unsupervised learning, without requiring complex new training methods. In particular, each component mul...
Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick, Alexandre Bouchard-C&ocir...
ICB
2009
Springer
255views Biometrics» more  ICB 2009»
13 years 3 months ago
Automatic Partial Face Alignment in NIR Video Sequences
Face recognition with partial face images is an important problem in face biometrics. The necessity can arise in not so constrained environments such as in surveillance video, or p...
Jimei Yang, ShengCai Liao, Stan Z. Li
ACL
2010
13 years 3 months ago
Bitext Dependency Parsing with Bilingual Subtree Constraints
This paper proposes a dependency parsing method that uses bilingual constraints to improve the accuracy of parsing bilingual texts (bitexts). In our method, a targetside tree frag...
Wenliang Chen, Jun'ichi Kazama, Kentaro Torisawa