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EMNLP
2008
14 years 11 months ago
A comparison of Bayesian estimators for unsupervised Hidden Markov Model POS taggers
There is growing interest in applying Bayesian techniques to NLP problems. There are a number of different estimators for Bayesian models, and it is useful to know what kinds of t...
Jianfeng Gao, Mark Johnson
EMNLP
2008
14 years 11 months ago
Integrating Multi-level Linguistic Knowledge with a Unified Framework for Mandarin Speech Recognition
To improve the Mandarin large vocabulary continuous speech recognition (LVCSR), a unified framework based approach is introduced to exploit multi-level linguistic knowledge. In th...
Xinhao Wang, Jiazhong Nie, Dingsheng Luo, Xihong W...
EMNLP
2008
14 years 11 months ago
Bayesian Unsupervised Topic Segmentation
This paper describes a novel Bayesian approach to unsupervised topic segmentation. Unsupervised systems for this task are driven by lexical cohesion: the tendency of wellformed se...
Jacob Eisenstein, Regina Barzilay
EMNLP
2008
14 years 11 months ago
HTM: A Topic Model for Hypertexts
Previously topic models such as PLSI (Probabilistic Latent Semantic Indexing) and LDA (Latent Dirichlet Allocation) were developed for modeling the contents of plain texts. Recent...
Congkai Sun, Bin Gao, Zhenfu Cao, Hang Li
EMNLP
2008
14 years 11 months ago
Learning with Compositional Semantics as Structural Inference for Subsentential Sentiment Analysis
Determining the polarity of a sentimentbearing expression requires more than a simple bag-of-words approach. In particular, words or constituents within the expression can interac...
Yejin Choi, Claire Cardie