@TechReport{Prescher:2001_1,
AUTHOR = {Prescher, Detlef},
TITLE = {Inside-Outside Estimation Meets Dynamic EM - GOLD},
YEAR = {2001},
NUMBER = {RR-01-02},
ADDRESS = {Saarbrücken},
TYPE = {Research Report},
INSTITUTION = {DFKI},
URL = {http://www.dfki.de/~prescher/papers/bib/2001dfki_report.prescher.pdf},
ABSTRACT = {It is an interesting fact that most of the stochastic models used by linguists can be interpreted as probabilistic context-free grammars. In this paper, this result will be accompanied by the formal proof that the inside-outside algorithm, the standard training method for probabilistic context-free grammars, can be regarded as a dynamic-programming variant of the EM algorithm. Even if this result is considered in isolation this means that most of the probabilistic models used by linguists are trained by a version of the EM algorithm. However, this result is even more interesting when considered in a theoretical context because the well-known convergence behavior of the inside-outside algorithm has been confirmed by many experiments but it seems that it never has been formally proved. Furthermore, being a version of the EM algorithm, the inside-outside algorithm also inherits the good convergence behavior of EM. We therefore contend that the as yet imperfect line of argumentation can be transformed into a coherent proof.},
ANNOTE = {COLIURL : Prescher:2001:IOEa.pdf}
}
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