Author Archives: shuyo

HDP-LDA updates

Posted on August 15, 2012

Hierarchical Dirichlet Processes (Teh+ 2006) are a nonparametric bayesian topic model which can treat infinite topics. In particular, HDP-LDA is interesting as an extention of LDA. (Teh+ 2006) introduced updates of Collapsed Gibbs sampling for a general framework of HDP, … Continue reading →

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[Kim+ ICML12] Dirichlet Process with Mixed Random Measures

Posted on July 31, 2012

We held a private reading meeting for ICML 2012. I took and introduced [Kim+ ICML12] “Dirichlet Process with Mixed Random Measures : A Nonparametric Topic Model for Labeled Data.” This is the presentation for it. DP-MRM [Kim+ ICML12] is a … Continue reading →

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Short Text Language Detection with Infinity-Gram

Posted on May 17, 2012

I talked about language detection (language identification) for twitter at NAIST(NARA Institute of Science and Technology). This is its slide. Tweets are too short to detect their languages precisely. I guess that one reason is because features extracted from a … Continue reading →

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[Karger+ NIPS11] Iterative Learning for Reliable Crowdsourcing Systems

Posted on May 1, 2012

In April 2012, We held a private reading meeting for NIPS 2011. I read “Iterative Learning for Reliable Crowdsourcing Systems” [Karger+ NIPS11]. [Karger+ NIPS11] Iterative Learning for Reliable Crowdsourcing Systems View more presentations from Shuyo Nakatani This paper targets Amazon … Continue reading →

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[Freedman+ EMNLP11] Extreme Extraction – Machine Reading in a Week

Posted on May 1, 2012

In December 2011, We held a private reading meeting for EMNLP 2011. I read “Extreme Extraction – Machine Reading in a Week” [Freedman+ EMNLP11]. Extreme Extraction – Machine Reading in a Week View more presentations from Shuyo Nakatani This paper … Continue reading →

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Why is Norwegian and Danish identification difficult?

Posted on March 7, 2012

I re-post the estimation table of ldig (twitter language detection). lang size detected correct precision recall cs 5329 5330 5319 0.9979 0.9981 da 5478 5483 5311 0.9686 0.9695 de 10065 10076 10014 0.9938 0.9949 en 9701 9670 9569 0.9896 0.9864 … Continue reading →

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Estimation of ldig (twitter Language Detection) for LIGA dataset

Posted on March 2, 2012

LIGA[Tromp+ 11] is a twitter language detection for 6 languages (German, English, Spanish, French, Italian and Dutch). It uses a graph with 3-grams for long distance features and detects 95-98% accuracy. They open their dataset here which has 9066 tweets, … Continue reading →

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Precision and Recall of ldig (twitter language detection)

Posted on March 2, 2012

In the previous article, I introduced ldig (Language Detection with Infinity-Gram: site, blog), which detects tweet languages. There are some requests to tell ldig’s precision and recall, so I calculated them. lang size detected correct precision recall cs 5329 5330 … Continue reading →

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Language Detection for twitter with 99.1% Accuracy

Posted on February 21, 2012

I released a newer prototype of Language Detection ( Language Identification ) with Infinity-Gram (ldig), a language detection prototype for twitter. https://github.com/shuyo/ldig It detects tweets in 17 languages with 99.1% accuracy (Czech, Dannish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Indonesian, Italian, … Continue reading →

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Repository Migration from subversion into git on Google Code Project

Posted on January 16, 2012

I migrated language-detection’s repository on Google Code Project from subversion into git. It is because its directory layout must be changed much for maven-support . (I HATE the branching of subversion! ) Google Code Project supports subversion, git and Mercurial … Continue reading →

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