Recent work in identifying dependent collocations among consecutive words (i.e., dependent bigrams) has applied inferential statistical methods where descriptive ones may have been more appropriate and easier to use. In this paper we make the distinction between inferential and descriptive methods and discuss how and when each should be applied. Inferential methods are useful in that they allow...

There are several approaches in trying to solve the Quantitative 1Structure-Activity Relationship (QSAR) problem. These approaches are based either on statistical methods or on predictive data mining. Among the statistical methods, one should consider regression analysis, pattern recognition (such as cluster analysis, factor analysis and principal components analysis) or partial least squares. ...

Linguistically motivated reordering methods have been developed to improve word alignment especially for Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) on long distance language pairs. However, since they highly rely on the parsing accuracy, it is useful to explore the relationship between parsing and reordering. For Chinese-toJapanese SMT, we carry out a three-stage incremental comparative analysis to ...