We present a method for conditional maximum likelihood estimation of N-gram models used for text or speech utterance classification. The method employs a well known technique relying on a generalization of the Baum-Eagon inequality from polynomials to rational functions. The best performance is achieved for the 1-gram classifier where conditional maximum likelihood training reduces the class er...

This paper addresses the problem of inference for a multinomial regression model in the presence of likelihood monotonicity. This paper proposes translating the multinomial regression problem into a conditional logistic regression problem, using existing techniques to reduce this conditional logistic regression problem to one with fewer observations and fewer covariates, such that probabilities...

1.1. Point Processses and Intensities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1.1.1. Stochastic Integrals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 1.2. The Autoregressive Conditional Duration Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 1.3. The Autoregressive Conditional Intensity Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...