Investigating Loss Functions and Optimization Methods for Discriminative Learning of Label Sequences

Proceedings of the 2003 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 145-152

  Altun, Yasemin ^a   Johnson, Mark ^b   Hofmann, Thomas ^a  

^a Brown Univerity   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

DISCRIMINATIVE LEARNING; DISCRIMINATIVE MODELS; FUNCTION METHODS; GENERATIVE MODEL; LOSS FUNCTIONS; LOSSES OPTIMISATION; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; OBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION; OPTIMIZATION METHOD; PERFORMANCE;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 85113387701     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1119355.1119374     Document Type: Conference Paper

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