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CSL
2012
Springer
12 years 3 months ago
Reinforcement learning for parameter estimation in statistical spoken dialogue systems
Reinforcement techniques have been successfully used to maximise the expected cumulative reward of statistical dialogue systems. Typically, reinforcement learning is used to estim...
Filip Jurcícek, Blaise Thomson, Steve Young
FINTAL
2006
13 years 11 months ago
Improving Phrase-Based Statistical Translation Through Combination of Word Alignments
This paper investigates the combination of word-alignments computed with the competitive linking algorithm and well-established IBM models. New training methods for phrase-based st...
Boxing Chen, Marcello Federico
AMTA
2004
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Multi-align: Combining Linguistic and Statistical Techniques to Improve Alignments for Adaptable MT
Abstract. An adaptable statistical or hybrid MT system relies heavily on the quality of word-level alignments of real-world data. Statistical alignment approaches provide a reasona...
Necip Fazil Ayan, Bonnie J. Dorr, Nizar Habash
JMLR
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
Evidence Contrary to the Statistical View of Boosting
The statistical perspective on boosting algorithms focuses on optimization, drawing parallels with maximum likelihood estimation for logistic regression. In this paper we present ...
David Mease, Abraham Wyner
MICCAI
2007
Springer
14 years 8 months ago
Shape Analysis Using a Point-Based Statistical Shape Model Built on Correspondence Probabilities
A fundamental problem when computing statistical shape models is the determination of correspondences between the instances of the associated data set. Often, homologies between po...
Heike Hufnagel, Xavier Pennec, Jan Ehrhardt, Heinz...