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COLT
1995
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
A Comparison of New and Old Algorithms for a Mixture Estimation Problem
We investigate the problem of estimating the proportion vector which maximizes the likelihood of a given sample for a mixture of given densities. We adapt a framework developed for...
David P. Helmbold, Yoram Singer, Robert E. Schapir...
COLT
2006
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
Can Entropic Regularization Be Replaced by Squared Euclidean Distance Plus Additional Linear Constraints
There are two main families of on-line algorithms depending on whether a relative entropy or a squared Euclidean distance is used as a regularizer. The difference between the two f...
Manfred K. Warmuth
ACL
2012
13 years 2 months ago
Combining Word-Level and Character-Level Models for Machine Translation Between Closely-Related Languages
We propose several techniques for improving statistical machine translation between closely-related languages with scarce resources. We use character-level translation trained on ...
Preslav Nakov, Jörg Tiedemann
JCB
2007
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15 years 10 days ago
Statistical Estimation of Statistical Mechanical Models: Helix-Coil Theory and Peptide Helicity Prediction
Analysis of biopolymer sequences and structures generally adopts one of two approaches: use of detailed biophysical theoretical models of the system with experimentally-determined...
Scott C. Schmidler, Joseph E. Lucas, Terrence G. O...
CORR
2010
Springer
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15 years 16 days ago
Indicators of the Interdisciplinarity of Journals: Diversity, Centrality, and Citations
A citation-based indicator for interdisciplinarity has been missing hitherto among the set of available journal indicators. In this study, we investigate network indicators (betwe...
Loet Leydesdorff, Ismael Rafols