Practical very large scale CRFs

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Volumn 2010-July, Issue , 2010, Pages 504-513

  Lavergne, Thomas ^a   Cappé, Olivier ^b   Yvon, François ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b INSTITUT TELECOM   (France)

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Indexed keywords

CARDINALITIES; CHAIN MODELS; COMPUTATIONAL EFFORT; LABEL SETS; LARGE-SCALES; LINEAR CHAIN; PENALTY TERM; RANDOM FIELDS; SEQUENCE LABELING; SIMPLEST LINEAR;

EID: 85118436751     PISSN: 0736587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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