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Inducing Synchronous Grammars with Slice Sampling
Phil Blunsom and Trevor Cohn
In: NAACL 2010, 1-6 June 2010, Los Angeles, USA.
AbstractThis paper describes an efficient sampler for
synchronous grammar induction under a non-
parametric Bayesian prior. Inspired by ideas
from slice sampling, our sampler is able to
draw samples from the posterior distributions
of models for which the standard dynamic pro-
graming based sampler proves intractable on
non-trivial corpora. We compare our sampler
to a previously proposed Gibbs sampler and
demonstrate strong improvements in terms of
both training log-likelihood and performance
on an end-to-end translation evaluation. [Edit]
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