Maxent in the Excel

Maxent Mechanics

This paper shows that: (a) given a mechanical system described by a set of independent coordinates in configuration space, (b) given an initial state of specified initial coordinates, and (c) given a situation in which the system can follow any one of a set of different possible paths with a pertinent probability pi , then the average path (defined as the weighted average positions and correspo...

Quantal effects and MaxEnt

Paternity analysis in Excel

Paternity analysis using microsatellite information is a well-studied subject. These markers are ideal for parentage studies and fingerprinting, due to their high-discrimination power. This type of data is used to assign paternity, to compute the average selfing and outcrossing rates and to estimate the biparental inbreeding. There are several public domain programs that compute all this inform...

GYDER: Maxent Metonymy Resolution

Though the GYDER system has achieved the highest accuracy scores for the metonymy resolution shared task at SemEval-2007 in all six subtasks, we don’t consider the results (72.80% accuracy for org, 84.36% for loc) particularly impressive, and argue that metonymy resolution needs more features.

Structural Maxent Models

We present a new class of density estimation models, Structural Maxent models, with feature functions selected from a union of possibly very complex sub-families and yet benefiting from strong learning guarantees. The design of our models is based on a new principle supported by uniform convergence bounds and taking into consideration the complexity of the different sub-families composing the f...