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ACL
1996
13 years 5 months ago
A New Statistical Parser Based on Bigram Lexical Dependencies
This paper describes a new statistical parser which is based on probabilities of dependencies between head-words in the parse tree. Standard bigram probability estimation techniqu...
Michael Collins
WSC
2000
13 years 5 months ago
Simulating GI/GI/1 queues and insurance risk processes with subexponential distributions
This paper deals with estimating small tail probabilities of the steady-state waiting time in a GI/GI/1 queue with heavy-tailed (subexponential) service times. The problem of esti...
Nam Kyoo Boots, Perwez Shahabuddin
UAI
1998
13 years 5 months ago
Large Deviation Methods for Approximate Probabilistic Inference
We study two-layer belief networks of binary random variables in which the conditional probabilities Pr childjparents depend monotonically on weighted sums of the parents. In larg...
Michael J. Kearns, Lawrence K. Saul
FLAIRS
1998
13 years 5 months ago
ProbSy--A System for the Calculation of Probabilities in the Card Game Bridge
Wepresent an application designated to the calculation of probabilities in the card gamebridge. Theapplication can be used by bridge players to improvetheir decisions in the game....
Anders L. Madsen, Lars M. Nielsen, Finn Verner Jen...
UAI
2004
13 years 5 months ago
Variational Chernoff Bounds for Graphical Models
Recent research has made significant progress on the problem of bounding log partition functions for exponential family graphical models. Such bounds have associated dual paramete...
Pradeep D. Ravikumar, John D. Lafferty
FLAIRS
2006
13 years 5 months ago
Some Second Order Effects on Interval Based Probabilities
In real-life decision analysis, the probabilities and values of consequences are in general vague and imprecise. One way to model imprecise probabilities is to represent a probabi...
David Sundgren, Mats Danielson, Love Ekenberg
ECIR
2010
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Estimating Translation Probabilities from the Web for Structured Queries on CLIR
We present two methods for estimating replacement probabilities without using parallel corpora. The first method proposed exploits the possible translation probabilities latent in ...
Xabier Saralegi, Maddalen Lopez de Lacalle
ECSQARU
1995
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Parametric Structure of Probabilities in Bayesian Networks
The paper presents a method for uncertainty propagation in Bayesian networks in symbolic, as opposed to numeric, form. The algebraic structure of probabilities is characterized. Th...
Enrique Castillo, José Manuel Gutiér...
ISIPTA
1999
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Modeling Ellsberg's Paradox in Vague-Vague Cases
We explore a generalization of Ellsberg's paradox (2color scenario) to the Vague-Vague (V-V) case, in which neither of the probabilities (urns) is specified precisely, but on...
Karen M. Kramer, David V. Budescu
LPNMR
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Revisiting the Semantics of Interval Probabilistic Logic Programs
Two approaches to logic programming with probabilities emerged over time: bayesian reasoning and probabilistic satisfiability (PSAT). The attractiveness of the former is in tying ...
Alex Dekhtyar, Michael I. Dekhtyar