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ACL
2006
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Combining Statistical and Knowledge-Based Spoken Language Understanding in Conditional Models
Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) addresses the problem of extracting semantic meaning conveyed in an utterance. The traditional knowledge-based approach to this problem is very...
Ye-Yi Wang, Alex Acero, Milind Mahajan, John Lee
NIPS
2004
13 years 11 months ago
Conditional Models of Identity Uncertainty with Application to Noun Coreference
Coreference analysis, also known as record linkage or identity uncertainty, is a difficult and important problem in natural language processing, databases, citation matching and m...
Andrew McCallum, Ben Wellner
UAI
2004
13 years 11 months ago
Case-Factor Diagrams for Structured Probabilistic Modeling
We introduce a probabilistic formalism subsuming Markov random fields of bounded tree width and probabilistic context free grammars. Our models are based on a representation of Bo...
David A. McAllester, Michael Collins, Fernando Per...
UAI
2004
13 years 11 months ago
Iterative Conditional Fitting for Gaussian Ancestral Graph Models
Ancestral graph models, introduced by Richardson and Spirtes (2002), generalize both Markov random fields and Bayesian networks to a class of graphs with a global Markov property ...
Mathias Drton, Thomas S. Richardson
UAI
2004
13 years 11 months ago
Bayesian Learning in Undirected Graphical Models: Approximate MCMC Algorithms
Bayesian learning in undirected graphical models--computing posterior distributions over parameters and predictive quantities-is exceptionally difficult. We conjecture that for ge...
Iain Murray, Zoubin Ghahramani