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ICASSP
2011
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Named entity recognition from Conversational Telephone Speech leveraging Word Confusion Networks for training and recognition
Named Entity (NE) recognition from the results of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) is challenging because of ASR errors. To detect NEs, one of the options is to use a statistica...
Gakuto Kurata, Nobuyasu Itoh, Masafumi Nishimura, ...
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EMNLP
2011
14 years 4 days ago
Entire Relaxation Path for Maximum Entropy Problems
We discuss and analyze the problem of finding a distribution that minimizes the relative entropy to a prior distribution while satisfying max-norm constraints with respect to an ...
Moshe Dubiner, Yoram Singer
ICML
2003
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
The Cross Entropy Method for Fast Policy Search
We present a learning framework for Markovian decision processes that is based on optimization in the policy space. Instead of using relatively slow gradient-based optimization al...
Shie Mannor, Reuven Y. Rubinstein, Yohai Gat
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ECSQARU
1999
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Connecting Lexicographic with Maximum Entropy Entailment
Abstract. This paper reviews and relates two default reasoning mechanisms, lexicographic (lex) and maximum entropy (me) entailment. Meentailment requires that defaults be assigned ...
Rachel A. Bourne, Simon Parsons
ACL
2008
15 years 1 months ago
Language Dynamics and Capitalization using Maximum Entropy
This paper studies the impact of written language variations and the way it affects the capitalization task over time. A discriminative approach, based on maximum entropy models, ...
Fernando Batista, Nuno J. Mamede, Isabel Trancoso