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can affect the performance of
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significantly . In addition ,
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Gaussian prior for training of
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in order to avoid overfitting
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problem mentioned above . Overall ,
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perform robustly well across
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Fields Conditional random fields (
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) are undirected graphical models
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Linear-chain conditional random fields (
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) ( Lafferty et al. , 2001 )
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. In their most general form ,
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are arbitrary undirected graphical
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beneficial properties suggests that
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are a promising approach for
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average . This indicates that
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are a viable model for robust
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segmentation and new word detection .
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provide a convenient framework
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. 5 Structure Recognition with
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Conditional random fields ( Lafferty
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maximum . 2.1 Regularization in
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To avoid over-fitting , log-likelihood
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1995 ) , can be used to train
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. However , our implementation
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Whereas HMMs are generative models ,
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are discriminative models that
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three-fold . First , we apply
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to Chinese word segmentation
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domain knowledge One advantage of
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( as well as traditional maximum
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3.2 Feature conjunctions Since
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are log-linear models , feature
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on conditional random fields (
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) and implemented as an efficient
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own implementation of factorial
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, which is freely available at
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similarities to ours . They apply
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to the parsing of hierarchical
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forward-backward algorithm for
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. The partial derivatives also
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