Training a system to recognize handwritten words is a task that requires a large amount of data with their correct transcription. However, the creation of such a training set, inc...
In limited data domains, many effective language modeling techniques construct models with parameters to be estimated on an in-domain development set. However, in some domains, no...
The Support Vector Machine error bound is a function of the margin and radius. Standard SVM algorithms maximize the margin within a given feature space, therefore the radius is fi...
In this paper, we present an overview of generalized expectation criteria (GE), a simple, robust, scalable method for semi-supervised training using weakly-labeled data. GE fits m...
WHIRL is an extensionof relational databasesthat canperform "soft joins" basedon the similarity of textual identifiers;thesesoftjoins extendthe traditional operationof j...