Hello, Science! [06/11/16

  • We recently got a paper accepted in EMNLP where we elaborate on a point that was touched upon in Mark Johnson’s “Why doesn’t EM find good HMM POS-taggers?”: if we are going to do completely unsupervised POS-tagging, how can non-parametric Bayesian methods help us? There were two parts to our paper: extending the iHMM to be able to…