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UAI
2008
14 years 10 months ago
Church: a language for generative models
Formal languages for probabilistic modeling enable re-use, modularity, and descriptive clarity, and can foster generic inference techniques. We introduce Church, a universal langu...
Noah Goodman, Vikash K. Mansinghka, Daniel M. Roy,...
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ACL
2010
14 years 7 months ago
Generating Image Descriptions Using Dependency Relational Patterns
This paper presents a novel approach to automatic captioning of geo-tagged images by summarizing multiple webdocuments that contain information related to an image's location...
Ahmet Aker, Robert J. Gaizauskas
FOSSACS
2009
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Facets of Synthesis: Revisiting Church's Problem
In this essay we discuss the origin, central results, and some perspectives of algorithmic synthesis of nonterminating reactive programs. We recall the fundamental questions raised...
Wolfgang Thomas
EMNLP
2007
14 years 11 months ago
Compressing Trigram Language Models With Golomb Coding
Trigram language models are compressed using a Golomb coding method inspired by the original Unix spell program. Compression methods trade off space, time and accuracy (loss). The...
Kenneth Church, Ted Hart, Jianfeng Gao
TLCA
2007
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Higher-Order Logic Programming Languages with Constraints: A Semantics
A Kripke Semantics is defined for a higher-order logic programming language with constraints, based on Church’s Theory of Types and a generic constraint formalism. Our syntactic...
James Lipton, Susana Nieva