Category Archives: machine learning

Condensr: Automatic Yelp Snippet Summarization using Natural Language Processing

Posted on October 21, 2010 by aria42

In an earlier post, I hinted at a Yelp review summarization system demo. Well, here it is. Some background: Christy Sauper, Regina Barzilay, and I recently presented Incorporating Content Structure into Text Analysis Applications at the Empirical Methods of Natural … Continue reading →

Posted in computer science, machine learning, nlp, reviews | 1 Comment

Classification with MIRA in Clojure

Posted on September 27, 2010 by aria42

A few people from my last post asked for an accessible explanation of the margin infused relaxation algorithm (MIRA) and confidence-weighted learning (CW) classification algorithms I discussed. I don’t think I can easily explain CW, but I think MIRA, or … Continue reading →

Posted in clojure, computer science, machine learning | 4 Comments

The Relation between MIRA and CW Learning

Posted on September 24, 2010 by aria42

Note: This post won’t make sense unless you’re steeped in recent machine learning. There’s a good chance that if you are, you already know this. During a machine learning reading group with Mike Collins, Jenny Finkel, Alexander Rush and myself … Continue reading →

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