This paper introduces an novel framework for speech understanding using extended context-free grammars (ECFGs) by combining statistical methods and rule based knowledge. By only us...
This paper establishes a connection between two apparently very different kinds of probabilistic models. Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) models are used as "topic models&qu...
— Determining the optimal topology of a graph is pertinent to many domains, as graphs can be used to model a variety of systems. Evolutionary algorithms constitute a popular opti...
Syntactic machine translation systems extract rules from bilingual, word-aligned, syntactically parsed text, but current systems for parsing and word alignment are at best cascade...
An operation of concatenation is introduced for graphs. Then strings are viewed as expressions denoting graphs, and string languages are interpreted as graph languages. For a clas...