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EMNLP
2007
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What is the Jeopardy Model? A Quasi-Synchronous Grammar for QA
This paper presents a syntax-driven approach to question answering, specifically the answer-sentence selection problem for short-answer questions. Rather than using syntactic fea...
Mengqiu Wang, Noah A. Smith, Teruko Mitamura
ESANN
2008
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Phase transitions in Vector Quantization
Abstract. We study Winner-Takes-All and rank based Vector Quantization along the lines of the statistical physics of off-line learning. Typical behavior of the system is obtained w...
Aree Witoelar, Anarta Ghosh, Michael Biehl
NIPS
2008
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Posterior Consistency of the Silverman g-prior in Bayesian Model Choice
Kernel supervised learning methods can be unified by utilizing the tools from regularization theory. The duality between regularization and prior leads to interpreting regularizat...
Zhihua Zhang, Michael I. Jordan, Dit-Yan Yeung
SODA
2008
ACM
184views Algorithms» more  SODA 2008»
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Coresets, sparse greedy approximation, and the Frank-Wolfe algorithm
The problem of maximizing a concave function f(x) in a simplex S can be solved approximately by a simple greedy algorithm. For given k, the algorithm can find a point x(k) on a k-...
Kenneth L. Clarkson
NIPS
2004
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Newscast EM
We propose a gossip-based distributed algorithm for Gaussian mixture learning, Newscast EM. The algorithm operates on network topologies where each node observes a local quantity ...
Wojtek Kowalczyk, Nikos A. Vlassis