ACL
2012
12 years 2 months ago
2012
Sentence Similarity is the process of computing a similarity score between two sentences. Previous sentence similarity work finds that latent semantics approaches to the problem ...
KDD
2012
ACM
12 years 2 months ago
2012
ACM
Tweets are the most up-to-date and inclusive stream of information and commentary on current events, but they are also fragmented and noisy, motivating the need for systems that c...
JMLR
2012
12 years 2 months ago
2012
We propose a new family of latent variable models called max-margin min-entropy (m3e) models, which define a distribution over the output and the hidden variables conditioned on ...
AAAI
2011
13 years 13 days ago
2011
Important ecological phenomena are often observed indirectly. Consequently, probabilistic latent variable models provide an important tool, because they can include explicit model...
FTCGV
2011
13 years 3 months ago
2011
Powerful statistical models that can be learned efficiently from large amounts of data are currently revolutionizing computer vision. These models possess a rich internal structur...
CVPR
2011
IEEE
13 years 4 months ago
2011
IEEE
We propose a novel nonlinear, probabilistic and variational method for adding shape information to level setbased segmentation and tracking. Unlike previous work, we represent sha...
JMLR
2010
13 years 7 months ago
2010
We propose a novel method for inferring whether X causes Y or vice versa from joint observations of X and Y . The basic idea is to model the observed data using probabilistic late...
SAC
2008
ACM
13 years 12 months ago
2008
ACM
Standard methods for maximum likelihood parameter estimation in latent variable models rely on the Expectation-Maximization algorithm and its Monte Carlo variants. Our approach is ...
JIIS
2002
14 years 3 days ago
2002
Abstract. We propose a novel probabilistic method, based on latent variable models, for unsupervised topographic visualisation of dynamically evolving, coherent textual information...
JMLR
2007
14 years 9 days ago
2007
We introduce standardised building blocks designed to be used with variational Bayesian learning. The blocks include Gaussian variables, summation, multiplication, nonlinearity, a...