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EMNLP
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Bootstrapping Feature-Rich Dependency Parsers with Entropic Priors
One may need to build a statistical parser for a new language, using only a very small labeled treebank together with raw text. We argue that bootstrapping a parser is most promis...
David A. Smith, Jason Eisner
EDM
2009
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13 years 5 months ago
Using Dirichlet priors to improve model parameter plausibility
Student modeling is a widely used approach to make inference about a student's attributes like knowledge, learning, etc. If we wish to use these models to analyze and better u...
Dovan Rai, Yue Gong, Joseph Beck
AAAI
1992
13 years 9 months ago
From Statistics to Beliefs
An intelligent agent uses known facts, including statistical knowledge, to assign degrees of belief to assertions it is uncertain about. We investigate three principled techniques...
Fahiem Bacchus, Adam J. Grove, Daphne Koller, Jose...
HUC
2010
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Social sensing for epidemiological behavior change
An important question in behavioral epidemiology and public health is to understand how individual behavior is affected by illness and stress. Although changes in individual behav...
Anmol Madan, Manuel Cebrián, David Lazer, A...
ICIP
2005
IEEE
14 years 9 months ago
Statistical categorization of human histological images
Histology is the science of understanding the structure of animals and plants, and studying the functional implications of biological structures. In this paper, we propose a stati...
Dehua Zhao, Yixin Chen, Nelson Correa