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ACL
2007
13 years 10 months ago
A Comparative Study of Parameter Estimation Methods for Statistical Natural Language Processing
This paper presents a comparative study of five parameter estimation algorithms on four NLP tasks. Three of the five algorithms are well-known in the computational linguistics com...
Jianfeng Gao, Galen Andrew, Mark Johnson, Kristina...
GECCO
2003
Springer
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14 years 1 months ago
Studying the Advantages of a Messy Evolutionary Algorithm for Natural Language Tagging
The process of labeling each word in a sentence with one of its lexical categories (noun, verb, etc) is called tagging and is a key step in parsing and many other language processi...
Lourdes Araujo
ACL
2008
13 years 10 months ago
Trainable Generation of Big-Five Personality Styles through Data-Driven Parameter Estimation
Previous work on statistical language generation has primarily focused on grammaticality and naturalness, scoring generation possibilities according to a language model or user fe...
François Mairesse, Marilyn A. Walker
JMLR
2012
11 years 11 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
DAGM
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Natural Language Understanding by Combining Statistical Methods and Extended Context-Free Grammars
This paper introduces an novel framework for speech understanding using extended context-free grammars (ECFGs) by combining statistical methods and rule based knowledge. By only us...
Stefan Schwärzler, Joachim Schenk, Frank Wall...