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DSMML
2004
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
2004
Springer
We investigate theoretically some properties of variational Bayes approximations based on estimating the mixing coefficients of known densities. We show that, with probability 1 a...
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IJAR
2010
15 years 1 months ago
2010
Bayesian networks with mixtures of truncated exponentials (MTEs) support efficient inference algorithms and provide a flexible way of modeling hybrid domains (domains containing ...
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ACL
2001
15 years 4 months ago
2001
This paper compares two different ways of estimating statistical language models. Many statistical NLP tagging and parsing models are estimated by maximizing the (joint) likelihoo...
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EMNLP
2008
15 years 4 months ago
2008
Having seen a news title "Alba denies wedding reports", how do we infer that it is primarily about Jessica Alba, rather than about weddings or reports? We probably reali...
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CSDA
2006
15 years 3 months ago
2006
We propose a simulation-based method for calculating maximum likelihood estimators in latent variable models. The proposed method integrates a recently developed sampling strategy...