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Representational bias in unsupervised learning of syllable structure
2005
Proceedings of the Ninth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning - CONLL '05
unpublished
Unsupervised learning algorithms based on Expectation Maximization (EM) are often straightforward to implement and provably converge on a local likelihood maximum. However, these algorithms often do not perform well in practice. Common wisdom holds that they yield poor results because they are overly sensitive to initial parameter values and easily get stuck in local (but not global) maxima. We present a series of experiments indicating that for the task of learning syllable structure, the
doi:10.3115/1706543.1706564
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