Abstract. Conditional Random Fields (CRFs) provide a powerful instrument for labeling sequences. So far, however, CRFs have only been considered for labeling sequences over flat al...
This paper describes discriminative language modeling for a large vocabulary speech recognition task. We contrast two parameter estimation methods: the perceptron algorithm, and a...
Brian Roark, Murat Saraclar, Michael Collins, Mark...
Virtual evidence (VE), first introduced by (Pearl, 1988), provides a convenient way of incorporating prior knowledge into Bayesian networks. This work generalizes the use of VE to...
This paper describes an online handwritten Japanese character string recognition system based on conditional random fields, which integrates the information of character recogniti...
One of the most common functions of smart environments is to monitor and assist older adults with their activities of daily living. Activity recognition is a key component in this...
Ehsan Nazerfard, Barnan Das, Lawrence B. Holder, D...