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JMLR
2012
13 years 1 months ago
Noise-Contrastive Estimation of Unnormalized Statistical Models, with Applications to Natural Image Statistics
We consider the task of estimating, from observed data, a probabilistic model that is parameterized by a finite number of parameters. In particular, we are considering the situat...
Michael Gutmann, Aapo Hyvärinen
CONNECTION
2008
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14 years 11 months ago
Spoken language interaction with model uncertainty: an adaptive human-robot interaction system
Spoken language is one of the most intuitive forms of interaction between humans and agents. Unfortunately, agents that interact with people using natural language often experienc...
Finale Doshi, Nicholas Roy
UMUAI
2008
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14 years 11 months ago
Automatic detection of learner's affect from conversational cues
We explored the reliability of detecting a learner's affect from conversational features extracted from interactions with AutoTutor, an intelligent tutoring system that helps...
Sidney K. D'Mello, Scotty D. Craig, Amy M. Withers...
EMNLP
2009
14 years 9 months ago
Model Adaptation via Model Interpolation and Boosting for Web Search Ranking
This paper explores two classes of model adaptation methods for Web search ranking: Model Interpolation and error-driven learning approaches based on a boosting algorithm. The res...
Jianfeng Gao, Qiang Wu, Chris Burges, Krysta Marie...
EMNLP
2009
14 years 9 months ago
Discriminative Corpus Weight Estimation for Machine Translation
Current statistical machine translation (SMT) systems are trained on sentencealigned and word-aligned parallel text collected from various sources. Translation model parameters ar...
Spyros Matsoukas, Antti-Veikko I. Rosti, Bing Zhan...