Log-linear parsing models are often trained by optimizing likelihood, but we would prefer to optimise for a task-specific metric like Fmeasure. Softmax-margin is a convex objecti...
Event Anaphora Resolution is an important task for cascaded event template extraction and other NLP study. Previous study only touched on event pronoun resolution. In this paper, ...
T ORDER REGRESSION (EXTENDED ABSTRACT) Kurt Driessensa Saso Dzeroskib a Department of Computer Science, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand (kurtd@waikato.ac.nz) b Departm...
Background: Generalized hidden Markov models (GHMMs) appear to be approaching acceptance as a de facto standard for state-of-the-art ab initio gene finding, as evidenced by the re...
Non-technical users are increasingly adding structures to their data. This gives rise to the need for database design. However, traditional database design is deliberate and heavy...