Berger et al 1996 a maximum entropy approach to natural language processing

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Citation

Adam Berger, Stephen Della Pietra, and Vincent Della Pietra; Computational Linguistics, (22-1), March 1996;

Online Version

An online version is located at [1]

Summary

This oft-cited paper explains the concept of Maximum Entropy Models and relates them to natural language processing, specifically as they can be applied to Machine Translation

Method

Maximum Entropy

The paper explains maximum entropy as a problem of constraints. Essentially,