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IALP
2010
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Hierarchical Pitman-Yor Language Model for Machine Translation
The hierarchical Pitman-Yor process-based smoothing method applied to language model was proposed by Goldwater and by Teh; the performance of this smoothing method is shown compara...
Tsuyoshi Okita, Andy Way
IJCV
2011
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Global Minimization for Continuous Multiphase Partitioning Problems Using a Dual Approach
This paper is devoted to the optimization problem of continuous multipartitioning, or multi-labeling, which is based on a convex relaxation of the continuous Potts model. In contr...
Egil Bae, Jing Yuan, Xue-Cheng Tai
EMNLP
2009
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Less is More: Significance-Based N-gram Selection for Smaller, Better Language Models
The recent availability of large corpora for training N-gram language models has shown the utility of models of higher order than just trigrams. In this paper, we investigate meth...
Robert C. Moore, Chris Quirk