Statistical language models assign probabilities to sequences of words, and are used in systems that perform speech recognition, machine translation, and many other tasks. In recent years, language ...

Abstract: Assumptions play a pivotal role in the selection and efficacy of statistical models, as unmet assumptions can lead to flawed conclusions and impact decision-making. In both traditional ...

A new model to predict how language changes over time has been developed by a statistical physicist at the University of ...

The analysis of categorical data underpins inquiries across disciplines ranging from social sciences to genomics. At its core, categorical data analysis seeks to model relationships between variables ...

Statistical language models assign probabilities to sequences of words, and are used in systems that perform text summarization, machine translation, question answering, information extraction, text ...