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SIGIR
2003
ACM
15 years 10 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
15 years 6 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
15 years 6 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
15 years 11 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
15 years 11 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