Biases in predicting the human language model

52nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2014 - Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn 2, Issue , 2014, Pages 7-12

  Fine, Alex B ^a   Frank, Austin F ^b   Jaeger, T Florian ^c   Van Durme, Benjamin ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b Data Department   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

BEHAVIORAL MEASURES; HUMAN LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE MODEL; N-GRAMS; PREDICTIVE ABILITIES; THROUGH THE LENS;

MODELING LANGUAGES;

EID: 84906924965     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/v1/p14-2002     Document Type: Conference Paper

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