Many statistical M-estimators are based on convex optimization problems formed by the weighted sum of a loss function with a norm-based regularizer. We analyze the convergence rat...
Alekh Agarwal, Sahand Negahban, Martin J. Wainwrig...
Abstract. This paper describes a full data-driven system for question answering. The system uses pattern matching and statistical techniques to identify the relevant passages as we...
Convolution kernels, such as sequence and tree kernels, are advantageous for both the concept and accuracy of many natural language processing (NLP) tasks. Experiments have, howev...
Statistical machine translation (SMT) systems for spoken languages suffer from conversational speech phenomena, in particular, the presence of speech dis uencies. We examine the i...
Human expressive interactions are characterized by an ongoing unfolding of verbal and nonverbal cues. Such cues convey the interlocutor’s emotional state which is continuous and...