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EMNLP
2008
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Transliteration as Constrained Optimization
This paper introduces a new method for identifying named-entity (NE) transliterations in bilingual corpora. Recent works have shown the advantage of discriminative approaches to t...
Dan Goldwasser, Dan Roth
ICONIP
2007
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Natural Conjugate Gradient in Variational Inference
Variational methods for approximate inference in machine learning often adapt a parametric probability distribution to optimize a given objective function. This view is especially ...
Antti Honkela, Matti Tornio, Tapani Raiko, Juha Ka...
SDM
2008
SIAM
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15 years 8 months ago
A RELIEF Based Feature Extraction Algorithm
RELIEF is considered one of the most successful algorithms for assessing the quality of features due to its simplicity and effectiveness. It has been recently proved that RELIEF i...
Yijun Sun, Dapeng Wu
UAI
2008
15 years 8 months ago
Improving Gradient Estimation by Incorporating Sensor Data
An efficient policy search algorithm should estimate the local gradient of the objective function, with respect to the policy parameters, from as few trials as possible. Whereas m...
Gregory Lawrence, Stuart J. Russell
NIPS
2001
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PAC Generalization Bounds for Co-training
The rule-based bootstrapping introduced by Yarowsky, and its cotraining variant by Blum and Mitchell, have met with considerable empirical success. Earlier work on the theory of c...
Sanjoy Dasgupta, Michael L. Littman, David A. McAl...