Abstract. Recently, there has been increasing interests in applying aspect models (e.g., PLSA and LDA) in image segmentation. However, these models ignore spatial relationships amo...
This paper presents a comparative study of five parameter estimation algorithms on four NLP tasks. Three of the five algorithms are well-known in the computational linguistics com...
Jianfeng Gao, Galen Andrew, Mark Johnson, Kristina...
We present a novel paradigm for statistical machine translation (SMT), based on a joint modeling of word alignment and the topical aspects underlying bilingual document-pairs, via...
One challenge in text processing is the treatment of case insensitive documents such as speech recognition results. The traditional approach is to re-train a language model exclud...
Cheng Niu, Wei Li 0003, Jihong Ding, Rohini K. Sri...
We propose dynamical systems trees (DSTs) as a flexible model for describing multiple processes that interact via a hierarchy of aggregating processes. DSTs extend nonlinear dynam...