This paper introduces a discriminative extension to whole-word point process modeling techniques. Meant to circumvent the strong independence assumptions of their generative prede...
The snapshot of a word means the most informative fragment of the word. By taking the snapshot instead of the whole, the value space of the lexical feature can be significantly r...
We present a novel approach for (written) dialect identification based on the discriminative potential of entire words. We generate Swiss German dialect words from a Standard Germ...
We present a global discriminative statistical word order model for machine translation. Our model combines syntactic movement and surface movement information, and is discriminat...