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EMNLP
2011
12 years 9 months ago
Structured Sparsity in Structured Prediction
Linear models have enjoyed great success in structured prediction in NLP. While a lot of progress has been made on efficient training with several loss functions, the problem of ...
André F. T. Martins, Noah A. Smith, M&aacut...
EMNLP
2009
13 years 7 months ago
Collocation Extraction Using Monolingual Word Alignment Method
Statistical bilingual word alignment has been well studied in the context of machine translation. This paper adapts the bilingual word alignment algorithm to monolingual scenario ...
Zhan-yi Liu, Haifeng Wang, Hua Wu, Sheng Li
EMNLP
2011
12 years 9 months ago
Lateen EM: Unsupervised Training with Multiple Objectives, Applied to Dependency Grammar Induction
We present new training methods that aim to mitigate local optima and slow convergence in unsupervised training by using additional imperfect objectives. In its simplest form, lat...
Valentin I. Spitkovsky, Hiyan Alshawi, Daniel Jura...
IPPS
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Library Function Selection in Compiling Octave
One way to address the continuing performance problem of high-level domain-specific languages, such as Octave or MATLAB, is to compile them to a relatively lower level language f...
Daniel McFarlin, Arun Chauhan
PADL
2007
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Rewriting Haskell Strings
Abstract The Haskell String type is notoriously inefficient. We introduce a new data type, ByteString, based on lazy lists of byte arrays, combining the speed benefits of strict a...
Duncan Coutts, Don Stewart, Roman Leshchinskiy