AAAI
2012
12 years 2 months ago
2012
We consider lifted importance sampling (LIS), a previously proposed approximate inference algorithm for statistical relational learning (SRL) models. LIS achieves substantial vari...
SDM
2012
SIAM
12 years 2 months ago
2012
SIAM
Droughts are one of the most damaging climate-related hazards. The late 1960s Sahel drought in Africa and the North American Dust Bowl of the 1930s are two examples of severe drou...
ACL
2012
12 years 2 months ago
2012
Many semantic parsing models use tree transformations to map between natural language and meaning representation. However, while tree transformations are central to several state-...
CVPR
2012
IEEE
12 years 2 months ago
2012
IEEE
With the recent availability of commercial light field cameras, we can foresee a future in which light field signals will be as common place as images. Hence, there is an immine...
PAMI
2012
12 years 2 months ago
2012
— Language and image understanding are two major goals of artificial intelligence which can both be conceptually formulated in terms of parsing the input signal into a hierarchi...
JMLR
2012
12 years 2 months ago
2012
We show that the stick-breaking construction of the beta process due to Paisley et al. (2010) can be obtained from the characterization of the beta process as a Poisson process. S...
AAAI
2011
12 years 12 months ago
2011
The automated processing of multiple seismic signals to detect and localize seismic events is a central tool in both geophysics and nuclear treaty verification. This paper report...
ACL
2011
2011
Better Hypothesis Testing for Statistical Machine Translation: Controlling for Optimizer Instability
13 years 3 months ago
In statistical machine translation, a researcher seeks to determine whether some innovation (e.g., a new feature, model, or inference algorithm) improves translation quality in co...
ACL
2011
13 years 3 months ago
2011
We present a probabilistic topic model for jointly identifying properties and attributes of social media review snippets. Our model simultaneously learns a set of properties of a ...
ACL
2011
13 years 3 months ago
2011
We propose a non-parametric Bayesian model for unsupervised semantic parsing. Following Poon and Domingos (2009), we consider a semantic parsing setting where the goal is to (1) d...