... estimators — ME estimation with L1 or L2 regularization, and AP — are in a near sta-tistical tie for first place. 1 Introduction Parameter estimation is fundamental to many sta-tistical approaches ... were trained discriminatively on an adaptation domain corpus (Encarta Encyclopedia). Thus, this forms a cross domain adaptation paradigm. This also implies that the portion of redundant features ... Estimation Methods for Statistical Natural Language Processing Jianfeng Gao*, Galen Andrew*, Mark Johnson*&, Kristina Toutanova* *Microsoft Research, Redmond WA 98052, {jfgao,galena,kristout}@microsoft.com...