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CCCG
2007
15 years 4 months ago
Optimal Point Set Partitioning using Rigid Motion Star Placement
We consider the problem of determining the placement of a star R on a set P of n points in the plane such that a given objective function is maximized. A star R is a set of m rays...
Prosenjit Bose, Jason Morrison
DAGSTUHL
2007
15 years 4 months ago
Prioritized Conditional Imperatives: Problems and a New Proposal
Abstract. The sentences of deontic logic may be understood as describing what an agent ought to do when faced with a given set of norms. If these norms come into conflict, the bes...
Jörg Hansen
ACL
2004
15 years 4 months ago
Annealing Techniques For Unsupervised Statistical Language Learning
Exploiting unannotated natural language data is hard largely because unsupervised parameter estimation is hard. We describe deterministic annealing (Rose et al., 1990) as an appea...
Noah A. Smith, Jason Eisner
ACL
1996
15 years 4 months ago
Parsing Algorithms and Metrics
Many different metrics exist for evaluating parsing results, including Viterbi, Crossing Brackets Rate, Zero Crossing Brackets Rate, and several others. However, most parsing algo...
Joshua Goodman
IOR
2007
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15 years 3 months ago
Optimal Strategies for Sports Betting Pools
Abstract. Every fall, millions of Americans enter betting pools to pick winners of the weekly NFL football games. In the spring, NCAA tournament basketball pools are even more popu...
Bryan Clair, David Letscher