Statistical language models assign probabilities to sequences of words, and are used in systems that perform speech recognition, machine translation, and many other tasks. In recent years, language ...

Statistical language models assign probabilities to sequences of words, and are used in systems that perform text summarization, machine translation, question answering, information extraction, text ...

This book, “Statistical Modeling and Computation,” provides a unique introduction to modern statistics from both classical and Bayesian perspectives. It also offers an integrated treatment of ...

Most modern speech recognition uses probabilistic models to interpret a sequence of sounds. Hidden Markov models, in particular, are used to recognize words. The same techniques have been adapted to ...