In this paper we will present a maximum entropy filter for the translation rules of a statistical machine translation system based on tree transducers. This filter can be success...
An experiment in collaborative learning was conducted in two introductory programming courses at Loyola College in Maryland. Data collected included background information on stud...
Abstract— Service level agreements (SLAs) specify performance guarantees made by service providers, typically in terms of packet loss, delay, delay variation, and network availab...
Joel Sommers, Paul Barford, Nick G. Duffield, Amos...
The hierarchical Pitman-Yor process-based smoothing method applied to language model was proposed by Goldwater and by Teh; the performance of this smoothing method is shown compara...
Traditionally, the Universal Background Model (UBM) is viewed as the background model of the entire acoustic feature space. We propose a novel interpretation of the UBM model, and...