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SIGIR
2010
ACM
14 years 12 months ago
Has portfolio theory got any principles?
Recently, Portfolio Theory (PT) has been proposed for Information Retrieval. However, under non-trivial conditions PT violates the original Probability Ranking Principle (PRP). In...
Guido Zuccon, Leif Azzopardi, Keith van Rijsbergen
COLING
2010
14 years 6 months ago
Unsupervised Discriminative Language Model Training for Machine Translation using Simulated Confusion Sets
An unsupervised discriminative training procedure is proposed for estimating a language model (LM) for machine translation (MT). An English-to-English synchronous context-free gra...
Zhifei Li, Ziyuan Wang, Sanjeev Khudanpur, Jason E...
ICML
2009
IEEE
15 years 6 months ago
Grammatical inference as a principal component analysis problem
One of the main problems in probabilistic grammatical inference consists in inferring a stochastic language, i.e. a probability distribution, in some class of probabilistic models...
Raphaël Bailly, François Denis, Liva R...
GECCO
2004
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
Real-Coded Bayesian Optimization Algorithm: Bringing the Strength of BOA into the Continuous World
This paper describes a continuous estimation of distribution algorithm (EDA) to solve decomposable, real-valued optimization problems quickly, accurately, and reliably. This is the...
Chang Wook Ahn, Rudrapatna S. Ramakrishna, David E...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
122views Robotics» more  ICRA 2009»
14 years 9 months ago
Utilizing reflection properties of surfaces to improve mobile robot localization
Abstract-- A main difficulty that arises in the context of probabilistic localization is the design of an appropriate observation model, i.e., determining the likelihood of a senso...
Maren Bennewitz, Cyrill Stachniss, Sven Behnke, Wo...