This paper explores the use of the homotopy method for training a semi-supervised Hidden Markov Model (HMM) used for sequence labeling. We provide a novel polynomial-time algorith...
We present a general approach to model selection and regularization that exploits unlabeled data to adaptively control hypothesis complexity in supervised learning tasks. The idea ...
Semi-supervised learning aims at taking advantage of unlabeled data to improve the efficiency of supervised learning procedures. For discriminative models however, this is a chall...
This paper proposes a framework for semi-supervised structured output learning (SOL), specifically for sequence labeling, based on a hybrid generative and discriminative approach...
Feature selection is an important task in effective data mining. A new challenge to feature selection is the so-called “small labeled-sample problem” in which labeled data is...