Global likelihood maximization is an important aspect of many statistical analyses. Often the likelihood function is highly multi-extremal. This presents a significant challenge t...
Since 1995, a few statistical parsing algorithms have demonstrated a breakthrough in parsing accuracy, as measured against the UPenn TREEBANK as a gold standard. In this paper we ...
Scott Miller, Heidi Fox, Lance A. Ramshaw, Ralph M...
Parallel Distributed Genetic Programming (PDGP) is a new form of Genetic Programming (GP) suitable for the development of programs with a high degree of parallelism. Programs are ...
The broad availability of multi-core chips on standard desktop PCs provides strong motivation for the development of new algorithms for logic model checkers that can take advantag...
The bag-of-visual-words is a popular representation for images that has proven to be quite effective for automatic annotation. In this paper, we extend this representation in orde...