The omnipresence of unknown words is a problem that any NLP component needs to address in some form. While there exist many established techniques for dealing with unknown words i...
Automated political districting shares with electronic voting the aim of preventing electoral manipulation and pursuing an impartial electoral mechanism. Political districting can...
The busy beaver is an example of a function which is not computable. It is based on a particular class of Turing machines, and is defined as the largest number of 1's that ca...
Abstract. In the context of nonlinear regression, we consider the problem of explaining a variable y from a vector x of explanatory variables and from a vector t of conditionning v...
We consider the problem of estimating the distribution underlying an observed sample of data. Instead of maximum likelihood, which maximizes the probability of the observed values...
Alon Orlitsky, Narayana P. Santhanam, Krishnamurth...