Forest lightning fire is a recurrent and serious problem in the Daxinganling Mountains of northeastern China. Information on the spatial distribution of fire danger is needed to improve local fire prevention actions. The Maxent (Maximun Entropy Models), which is prevalent in modeling habitat distribution, was used to predict the possibility of lightning fire occurrence in a 1 × 1 km grid based ...

This paper focuses on the task of tagging text with their parts of speech. The methodology chosen for this task is the Maximum Entropy based Model and although complex will only be explained briefly. More importantly, the focus will center on the differences in performance of the maxent model with varying feature sets compared to the baseline model. One problem highlighted in part-of-speech tag...

The asymptotic convergence of probability density function (pdf) and convergence of differential entropy are examined for the non-stationary processes that follow the maximum entropy principle (MaxEnt) and maximum entropy production principle (MEPP). Asymptotic convergence of pdf provides new justification of MEPP while convergence of differential entropy is important in asymptotic analysis of ...

In many practical situations, the Maximum Entropy (MaxEnt) approach leads to reasonable distributions. However, in an important case when all we know is that the value of a random variable is somewhere within the interval, this approach leads to a uniform distribution on this interval – while our intuition says that we should have a distribution whose probability density tends to 0 when we appr...

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is an important task in information extraction, where major attention has been paid to written texts of a news or academic paper (esp. biomedical) style. In this paper we report the first piece of work on NER in spoken Chinese dialogues, as a preliminary step for spoken language understanding. The NER task is taken as a sequential classification problem and solved...

This paper presents an unsupervised method that uses limited amount of labeled data and a large pool of unlabeled data to improve natural language call routing performance. The method uses multiple classifiers to select a subset of the unlabeled data to augment limited labeled data. We evaluated four widely used text classification algorithms; Naive Bayes Classification (NBC), Support Vector ma...