Fast parameter estimation for joint maximum entropy language models.
Edward James SchofieldPublished in: INTERSPEECH (2004)
Keyphrases
- maximum entropy
- parameter estimation
- language model
- random fields
- language modeling
- probabilistic model
- maximum entropy principle
- document retrieval
- n gram
- expectation maximization
- maximum likelihood
- markov random field
- em algorithm
- conditional random fields
- least squares
- model selection
- markov models
- query expansion
- retrieval model
- information retrieval
- parameter estimation algorithm
- mixture model
- named entity recognition
- statistical models
- posterior distribution
- test collection
- smoothing methods
- vector space model
- approximate inference
- higher order
- probability distribution
- data mining