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SIGIR
2003
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Bayesian extension to the language model for ad hoc information retrieval
We propose a Bayesian extension to the ad-hoc Language Model. Many smoothed estimators used for the multinomial query model in ad-hoc Language Models (including Laplace and Bayes-...
Hugo Zaragoza, Djoerd Hiemstra, Michael E. Tipping
ACL
2006
13 years 10 months ago
A Hierarchical Bayesian Language Model Based On Pitman-Yor Processes
We propose a new hierarchical Bayesian n-gram model of natural languages. Our model makes use of a generalization of the commonly used Dirichlet distributions called Pitman-Yor pr...
Yee Whye Teh
EMNLP
2007
13 years 10 months ago
Improving Word Alignment with Bridge Languages
We describe an approach to improve Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) performance using multi-lingual, parallel, sentence-aligned corpora in several bridge languages. Our appro...
Shankar Kumar, Franz Josef Och, Wolfgang Macherey
ICASSP
2009
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Product-HMMs for automatic sign language recognition
We address multistream sign language recognition and focus on efficient multistream integration schemes. Alternative approaches are investigated and the application of Product-HM...
Stavros Theodorakis, Athanassios Katsamanis, Petro...
ICASSP
2008
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Language modeling for voice search: A machine translation approach
This paper presents a novel approach to language modeling for voice search based on the idea and method of statistical machine translation. We propose an n-gram based translation ...
Xiao Li, Yun-Cheng Ju, Geoffrey Zweig, Alex Acero