The Maximum Entropy Modeling Toolkit supports parameter estimation and prediction for statistical language models in the maximum entropy framework. The maximum entropy framework provides a constructive method for obtaining the unique conditional distribution p*(y|x) that satisfies a set of linear constraints and maximizes the conditional entropy H(p|f) with respect to the empirical distribution...

Entropy is a state function. The entropy increase principle tells us that under isolated or adiathermal conditions, the spontaneous development of a system from a state of non-equilibrium to a state of equilibrium is a process of entropy increase, in which a state of equilibrium corresponds to a state of maximum entropy. When the system is in a state of equilibrium, it is also at its most chaot...

This paper proposes a method of automatic transliteration from English to Japanese words. Our method successfully transliterates an English word not registered in any bilingual or pronunciation dictionaries by converting each partial letters in the English word into Japanese katakana characters. In such transliteration, identical letters occurring in different English words must often be conver...

We study excited states of the nucleon in quenched lattice QCD with the spectral analysis using the maximum entropy method. Our simulations are performed on three lattice sizes 16 × 32, 24 × 32 and 32 × 32, at β = 6.0 to address the finite volume issue. We find a significant finite volume effect on the mass of the Roper resonance for light quark masses. After removing this systematic error, its...

Numerical integration errors and volumetric locking in the near-incompressible limit are two outstanding issues in Galerkin-based meshfree computations. In this paper, we present a modified Gaussian integration scheme on background cells for meshfree methods that alleviates errors in numerical integration and ensures patch test satisfaction to machine precision. Secondly, a lockingfree small-st...

In ecology predictive models of the geographical distribution of certain species are widely used to capture the spatial diversity. Recently a method of Maxent based on Gibbs distribution is frequently employed to have reasonable accuracy of a target distribution of species at a site using environmental features such as temperature, precipitation, elevation and so on. It requires only presence d...