Bayesian Identification of Cognates and Correspondences

Proceedings of 9th Meeting of the ACL Special Interest Group in Computational Morphology and Phonology, SIGMORPHON 2007 - Held in conjunction with the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics, ACL 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 15-22

  Mark Ellison, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS;

BAYE'S THEOREM; BAYESIAN APPROACHES; BAYESIAN IDENTIFICATION; GRADIENT-DESCENT; POSTERIOR PROBABILITY; SIMPLE MODELING;

GRADIENT METHODS;

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DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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