Maximum Entropy Markov Models for Information Extraction and Segmentation

Citation

McCallum A., Freitag D., Pereira F. Maximum entropy Markov models for information extraction and segmentation, in Proceedings of ICML 2000, 2000.

Presentation outline

  • Modeling sequential data with HMMs
  • Problems with previous methods: motivation
  • Maximum entropy Markov model (MEMM)
  • Segmentation of FAQs: experiments and results
  • Conclusions

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