[Probcogsci] Prob Cogsci reading group this quarter

[Angela Yu]

Dear Mike,

Thanks for reminding me.  Yes!  I was thinking about this paper by Yee- 
whye:
http://www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/~ywteh/research/compling/acl2006.pdf

This was a model proposed for natural languages (and also has power- 
law properties), and so may especially appeal to the language modeling  
members of our reading group.

The newer paper you referred to also looks very interesting, and in  
fact finds a formal relationship between a new model with the old model.

I suggest that we read the 2006 paper first, and then see if we want  
to continue with the newer paper the following week.

Mike, do you think you can lead the discussion on the 2006 paper at  
our first meeting on Jan. 29?

Thanks,
Angela

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Angela J. Yu
Assistant Professor
Department of Cognitive Science
UCSD, Mail Code 0515
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093-0515

Email: ajyu at cogsci.ucsd.edu
Phone: 858-822-3317
Fax: 858-534-1128
Website: www.cogsci.ucsd.edu/~ajyu
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On Jan 12, 2010, at 2:36 PM, Michael C. Mozer wrote:

> you'd mentioned some work involving dirichlet priors and power law
> functions for memory, maybe by Yee Whye Teh.  we talked about  
> reading it
> for the group.
>
> i remember seeing this at NIPS:
> http://books.nips.cc/papers/files/nips22/NIPS2009_0464.pdf
> is this the work you were referring to?
>
>
> On 1/11/2010 4:46 PM, Angela Yu wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> We will meet Friday 1-2 this quarter.  Would anyone like to suggest a
>> paper for this Friday?
>>
>> Best wishes,
>> Angela
>>
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>> Angela J. Yu
>> Assistant Professor
>> Department of Cognitive Science
>> UCSD, Mail Code 0515
>> 9500 Gilman Drive
>> La Jolla, CA 92093-0515
>>
>> Email: ajyu at cogsci.ucsd.edu
>> Phone: 858-822-3317
>> Fax: 858-534-1128
>> Website: www.cogsci.ucsd.edu/~ajyu
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