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EMNLP
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Statistical Estimation of Word Acquisition with Application to Readability Prediction
Models of language learning play a central role in a wide range of applications: from psycholinguistic theories of how people acquire new word knowledge, to information systems th...
Paul Kidwell, Guy Lebanon, Kevyn Collins-Thompson
ECML
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
U-Likelihood and U-Updating Algorithms: Statistical Inference in Latent Variable Models
Abstract. In this paper we consider latent variable models and introduce a new U-likelihood concept for estimating the distribution over hidden variables. One can derive an estimat...
JaeMo Sung, Sung Yang Bang, Seungjin Choi, Zoubin ...
ECCV
2002
Springer
14 years 9 months ago
A Tale of Two Classifiers: SNoW vs. SVM in Visual Recognition
Numerous statistical learning methods have been developed for visual recognition tasks. Few attempts, however, have been made to address theoretical issues, and in particular, stud...
Ming-Hsuan Yang, Dan Roth, Narendra Ahuja
ICS
2010
Tsinghua U.
14 years 5 months ago
Space-Efficient Estimation of Robust Statistics and Distribution Testing
: The generic problem of estimation and inference given a sequence of i.i.d. samples has been extensively studied in the statistics, property testing, and learning communities. A n...
Steve Chien, Katrina Ligett, Andrew McGregor
WOSS
2004
ACM
14 years 29 days ago
Combining statistical monitoring and predictable recovery for self-management
Complex distributed Internet services form the basis not only of e-commerce but increasingly of mission-critical networkbased applications. What is new is that the workload and in...
Armando Fox, Emre Kiciman, David A. Patterson