A discriminating position

Discriminating Groups: a Comprehensive Overview

Discriminating groups were introduced by G.Baumslag, A.Myasnikov and V.Remeslennikov as an outgrowth of their theory of algebraic geometry over groups. However they have taken on a life of their own and have been an object of a considerable amount of study. In this paper we survey the large array results concerning the class of discriminating groups that have been developed over the past decade.

Discriminating Perception

A Simple Baseline for Discriminating Similar Languages

This paper describes an approach to discriminating similar languages using wordand characterbased features, submitted as the Queen Mary University of London entry to the Discriminating Similar Languages shared task. Our motivation was to investigate how well a simple, datadriven, linguistically naive method could perform, in order to provide a baseline by which more linguistically complex or kn...

Discriminating Languages in a Probabilistic Latent Subspace

We explore a method to boost discriminative capabilities of Probabilistic Linear Discriminant Analysis (PLDA) model without losing its generative advantages. To this end, our focus is in a low-dimensional PLDA latent subspace. We optimize the model with respect to MMI (Maximum Mutual Information) and our own objective functions, which is an approximation to the detection cost function. We evalu...

A Computational Model for Discriminating Music Performers

In this study, a computational model that aims at the automatic discrimination of different human music performers playing the same piece is presented. The proposed model is based on the note level and does not require any deep (e.g., structural or harmonic, etc.) analysis. A set of measures that attempts to capture both the style of the author and the style of the piece is introduced. The pres...