... framework, global linear models, and two parameter estimation methods withinthe framework, the perceptron algorithm and a methodbased on conditional random fields. The linear models we describe are ... parame-ter has on the error rate, and then modifies the parametersto reduce the error rate based on this prediction.2 Linear Models, the PerceptronAlgorithm, and Conditional Random FieldsThis section ... modeling for a large vocabulary speech recognition task. We con-trast two parameter estimation methods: the perceptronalgorithm, and a method based on conditional random fields (CRFs). The models...