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... assertion we review the concept of copulas and state a simple proposition which is the basis of comparing existing modelsand defining new and structurally different models Copulas Copulas are simply the ... function of a standard d-dimensional normal random vector with correlation matrix R, and Φ is the distribution function of univariate Ga standard normal CR is known as the Gaussian copula, and this ... Variable Models To understand that the use of the Gaussian copula leads to models that are structurally equivalent we introduce a formal definition of equivalence for latent variable modelsand present...
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... methods of context similarity, and concluded that agglomerative clustering provides effective means of inference (Gooi and Allan, 2004) Pedersen et al (2006) and Purandare and Pedersen (2004) integrate ... Reading and Learning to Read Andrew McCallum and Ben Wellner 2004 Conditional models of identity uncertainty with application to noun coreference In Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) Andrew ... of hand-tuned weights, dictionaries, and heuristics to define similarity for name disambiguation (Blume, 2005; Baron and Freedman, 2008; Popescu et al., 2008) These approaches are greedy and differ...
... segmentation and polarity labeling and compare them to the joint opinion extractor and polarity classifier by Choi and Cardie (2010) Secondly, we extend the global structure approach and add features ... points in intersection F-measure and points in recall The improvements over Choi and Cardie (2010) ranged between 10 and 15 in overlap F-measure and between 17 and 24 in recall This is not only ... Facts, Opinions and Bias in Time, and under grant 247758: Trustworthy Eternal Systems via Evolving Software, Data and Knowledge (EternalS) References Stephan Bloehdorn and Alessandro Moschitti...
... The previous section compared similiar joint and conditional tagging models This section compares a pair of joint and conditional parsing models The models are both stochastic shift-reduce parsers; ... Lari and S.J Young 1990 The estimation of Stochastic Context-Free Grammars using the Inside-Outside algorithm Computer Speech and Language, 4(35-56) Andrew McCallum, Dayne Freitag, and Fernando ... investigates closely related joint and conditional tagging models (the latter can be regarded as a simplification of the Maximum Entropy Markov Models of McCallum et al (2000)), and shows that MLEs outperform...
... November 25, 2008 Strikes and vols are expressed as differences from the respective ATM values Source: Bloomberg Andersen and Andreasen (2002), Piterbarg (2005), Wu and Zhang (2006) and Zhu (2007) In ... the pricing formulas for caplets and swaptions Section introduces stochastic volatility and derives the dynamics of rates and volatilities under generic forward and swap measures Hints on the derivation ... opportunities In fact, let us denote the FRA rate and the forward rate implied by the two deposits with maturity T1 and T2 by FX and FD , respectively, and assume that FD > FX One may then be tempted...
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... mistransmitted (Models 1, 3, 5), and how the N and V probabil- ities acquired by a given learner are coupled In ˆ Model there is no coupling (ˆ t and βt learned α independently), in Models 2–3 coupling takes ... −k2 k2 t t PB (k1 , k2 ) ≡ (2) αt and βt , the probability that a random member of Gt produces N and V examples as σ´ , are the σ ˆ ensemble averages of αt and βt over all members ˆ of Gt Because ... models are analyzed, allowing for much more detailed models of language learning and usage than those considered here (e.g Choudhury et al., 2006; Minett & Wang, 2008; Baxter et al., 2009; Landsbergen,...
... : , and similarly elsewhere The theory defines the properties of seven nodes: an abstract V e r b node, nodes E n V e r b , A u x and M o d a l , and three abstract lexemes W a l k , M o w and ... the other hand, the value of 1The syntax presented in (Evans and Gazdar, 1989a; Evans and Gazdar, 1989b) permits nodes and paths to stand as local descriptors However, these additional forms can ... templates and inheritance In Ted Briscoe, Valeria de Paiva, and Ann Copestake, editors, Inheritance, Defaults and the Lexicon, pages 13-37 Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Greville Corbett and...
... improvement to the Ravichandran and Hovy (2002) algorithm based on Partially Untethered Contextual Pattern Models Learning a position-based model using absolute and relative positions and sequential order ... in question and, there has been a plethora of work in the seed-based bootstrapping literature which addresses this problem (Ravichandran and Hovy, 2002; Thelen and Riloff, 2002; Mann and Yarowsky, ... “A1 p A2 q A3 ”, where p and q are and respectively, is given using the rote extractor model probability as in (Ravichandran and Hovy, 2002; Mann and Yarowsky 2005): x,y∈r...
... equality constraints between terms and formulas built from the atomic constraints using the standard logic operators, namely disjunction, conjunction and negation, and that a notion of validity can ... t':c' and t":c" and c is logically equivalent to d, then t:d is also a unifier Similarly if, for some variable x and term r, we can derive x=r from c, then [r/x](t:c) is also a unifier for t':c' and ... w v a r i a b l e s and p( ) which can be defined is by: and f o r c o n s t r a i n t s ( k e e p i n g in m i n d that implication and e q u i w d e n c e are just shorthands): Rewriting lrue...
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... Lindsley manipulanda The relationship between the manipulanda and the rewards alternated from trial to trial so that pulling one manipulandum dispensed a nickel on one trial, and a token on the ... scale and significantly lower than Chicanos on the So and SC scales of the CPI and on the L scale of the MMPI-168, with no significant differences between blacks and Anglos or between blacks and ... and Substance Abuse Edward Lichtenstein 114 Chapter Controlled Smoking Lee W Frederiksen 128 Chapter 10 Commonalities in the Treatment and Understanding of Smoking and...
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... takes new tuples and a current state and output new tuples and a modified state and pass, prop, keep are three behavior functions that take punctuation marks and state as input and returns additional ... etc.) always return a sequence of length one and they are all nonmonotonic, and therefore blocking Continuous count and sum are monotonic and nonblocking, and thus suitable for continuous queries ... equivalent defines the two queries pUq and coalscp, the first on P and Q and the second on P only We will refer to them as the coalesce query and the until query, and observe that they are monotonic...
... Z-Score and ZETA® Models Background This paper discusses two of the venerable models for assessing the distress of industrial corporations These are the so-called Z-Score model (1968) and ZETA® ... sized distressed firms and is unquestionably relevant to both small and large firms Variable Selection After the initial groups are defined and firms selected, balance sheet and income statement ... of the model and in holdout sample testing Sample and Data Characteristics and Statistical Methodology Sample Characteristics Our two samples of firms consist of 53 bankrupt firms and a matched...
... language and translation modelsand on their combination with general models in order to achieve a proper balance between precision (specialized in-domain models) and recall (general out-of-domain models) ... proper cooperation between ‘EU’ and ‘WNG’ models ‘EU’ models provides recall, for instance by suggesting translation candidates for ‘bombs’ or ‘price below’ ‘WNG’ models provide precision, for ... ‘WNG’ and ‘EU+WNG’ systems FE , FW and FEW refer to the GTM (e = 1) F-measure attained by the ‘EU’, ‘WNG’ and ‘EU+WNG’ systems, respectively ‘Source’, OutE , OutW and OutEW refer to the input and...