... of ACL 94.Ido Dagan, Shaul Marcus, and Shaul Markovitch.1995. Contextual word similarity and estimationfrom sparse data. Computer, Speech and Language,9:123–152.Ido Dagan, Lillian Lee, and ... smoothing, regularization, marginmaximization and so on (Chen and Goodman,1998; Chen and Rosenfeld, 2000; Cortes and Vap-nik, 1995). Recently, the Bayesian approach hasemerged and achieved promising ... pro-files are multinomial distributions, the pri-ors are Dirichlet, and the base measure isthe Bhattacharyya coefficient, we can de-rive an analytical form that allows efficientcalculation. For the...