Introduction To Conditional Random Fields.ppt

Introduction To Conditional Random Fields Presentation by Yanbing Yu Oct.12, 2006 Outline Why do we choose crf ? What is crf ? How to apply it ? Application HMM Disadvantages Need to enumerate all possible observation sequences Not practical to represent multiple interacting features or long-range dependencies of the observations Very strict independence assumptions on the observations MEMM Exponential model Given training set X with label sequence Y: Train a model θ that maximizes P(Y|X, θ) For a new data sequence x, the predicted label y maximizes P(y|x, θ) Notice the per-st