Class Meeting for 10-710 09-06-2011

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

HMMs, MaxEnt Taggers, and MEMMs

• Slides to be posted

Required Readings

No additional readings from Thursday, but I will focus on this paper:

• Frietag 2000 Maximum Entropy Markov Models for Information Extraction and Segmentation

The Borthwick et al paper I discussed last Thursday is

• Exploiting diverse knowledge sources via maximum entropy in named entity recognition, by A. Borthwick, J. Sterling, E. Agichtein, R. Grishman. In Proceedings of the sixth workshop on very large corpora, 1998.