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ACL
1998
13 years 9 months ago
1998
We introduce a stochastic grammatical channel model for machine translation, that synthesizes several desirable characteristics of both statistical and grammatical machine transla...
CORR
2007
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
2007
Springer
Abstract— We develop a general framework for MAP estimation in discrete and Gaussian graphical models using Lagrangian relaxation techniques. The key idea is to reformulate an in...
ACL
2008
13 years 9 months ago
2008
Discriminative feature-based methods are widely used in natural language processing, but sentence parsing is still dominated by generative methods. While prior feature-based dynam...
ICPR
2000
IEEE
14 years 8 months ago
2000
IEEE
We describe a method for learning statistical models of images using a second-order hidden Markov mesh model. First, an image can be segmented in a way that best matches its stati...
WSC
2008
13 years 10 months ago
2008
We develop a model of golfer putting skill and combine it with physics-based putt trajectory and holeout models to study the impact of doubling the radius of the hole on the putti...