Class Meeting for 10-710 09-15-2011

This is one of the class meetings on the schedule for the course Structured Prediction 10-710 in Fall 2011.

Conditional Structure and Conditional Estimation

• Slides

Required Readings

• Conditional structure versus conditional estimation in NLP models, by D. Klein, C. D Manning. In Proceedings of the ACL-02 conference on Empirical methods in natural language processing-Volume 10, 2002.

Optional Readings

• Locally Normalized Conditional Models, Appendix D of Linguistic Structure Prediction, Smith 2011
• Generative models (HMMs) with conditional probability distributions defined by log-linear models: Painless Unsupervised Learning with Features, Berg-Kirkpatrick et al., 2010