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NIPS
2007
13 years 7 months ago
Expectation Maximization and Posterior Constraints
The expectation maximization (EM) algorithm is a widely used maximum likelihood estimation procedure for statistical models when the values of some of the variables in the model a...
João Graça, Kuzman Ganchev, Ben Task...
EMNLP
2008
13 years 7 months ago
Mining and Modeling Relations between Formal and Informal Chinese Phrases from Web Corpora
We present a novel method for discovering and modeling the relationship between informal Chinese expressions (including colloquialisms and instant-messaging slang) and their forma...
Zhifei Li, David Yarowsky
ACL
2003
13 years 7 months ago
tRuEcasIng
Truecasing is the process of restoring case information to badly-cased or noncased text. This paper explores truecasing issues and proposes a statistical, language modeling based ...
Lucian Vlad Lita, Abraham Ittycheriah, Salim Rouko...
ICML
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Unsupervised estimation for noisy-channel models
Shannon's Noisy-Channel model, which describes how a corrupted message might be reconstructed, has been the corner stone for much work in statistical language and speech proc...
Markos Mylonakis, Khalil Sima'an, Rebecca Hwa
CIKM
2005
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
A hybrid approach to NER by MEMM and manual rules
This paper describes a framework for defining domain specific Feature Functions in a user friendly form to be used in a Maximum Entropy Markov Model (MEMM) for the Named Entity Re...
Moshe Fresko, Binyamin Rosenfeld, Ronen Feldman