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UAI
2004
13 years 10 months ago
2004
Within the task of collaborative filtering two challenges for computing conditional probabilities exist. First, the amount of training data available is typically sparse with resp...
JMLR
2010
13 years 3 months ago
2010
Various supervised inference methods can be analyzed as convex duals of the generalized maximum entropy (MaxEnt) framework. Generalized MaxEnt aims to find a distribution that max...
ICML
2010
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
2010
IEEE
The principle of maximum entropy provides a powerful framework for statistical models of joint, conditional, and marginal distributions. However, there are many important distribu...
NAACL
2003
13 years 10 months ago
2003
In this paper we investigate the use of surface text patterns for a Maximum Entropy based Question Answering (QA) system. These text patterns are collected automatically in an uns...
CORR
1998
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
1998
Springer
This paper describes a partial parser that assigns syntactic structures to sequences of partof-speech tags. The program uses the maximum entropy parameter estimation method, which...