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ECAL
2007
Springer
14 years 10 days ago
Group Size Effects on the Emergence of Compositional Structures in Language
This paper presents computer simulations which investigate the effect that different group sizes have on the emergence of compositional structures in languages. The simulations are...
Paul Vogt
ACL
2001
13 years 9 months ago
Scaling to Very Very Large Corpora for Natural Language Disambiguation
The amount of readily available on-line text has reached hundreds of billions of words and continues to grow. Yet for most core natural language tasks, algorithms continue to be o...
Michele Banko, Eric Brill
EMNLP
2009
13 years 6 months ago
Multi-Class Confidence Weighted Algorithms
The recently introduced online confidence-weighted (CW) learning algorithm for binary classification performs well on many binary NLP tasks. However, for multi-class problems CW l...
Koby Crammer, Mark Dredze, Alex Kulesza
ICASSP
2010
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Discriminative training methods for language models using conditional entropy criteria
This paper addresses the problem of discriminative training of language models that does not require any transcribed acoustic data. We propose to minimize the conditional entropy ...
Jui-Ting Huang, Xiao Li, Alex Acero
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Unsupervised query segmentation using generative language models and wikipedia
In this paper, we propose a novel unsupervised approach to query segmentation, an important task in Web search. We use a generative query model to recover a query's underlyin...
Bin Tan, Fuchun Peng