Exploiting unannotated natural language data is hard largely because unsupervised parameter estimation is hard. We describe deterministic annealing (Rose et al., 1990) as an appea...
This paper addresses the issue of devising a new document prior for the language modeling (LM) approach for Information Retrieval. The prior is based on term statistics, derived in...
We have developed a new statistical timing analysis approach that does not impose any assumptions on the nature of manufacturing variability and takes into account an arbitrary mo...
Jennifer L. Wong, Azadeh Davoodi, Vishal Khandelwa...
In recent years statistical word alignment models have been widely used for various Natural Language Processing (NLP) problems. In this paper we describe a platform independent and...
The nature of map generalization may be non-uniform along the length of an individual line, requiring the application of methods that adapt to the local geometry and the geographi...