ftw. Text Modeller

News

April 13, 2005

An alpha 2.0 version is now available for ftwmaxent. (Version 1.x was a development version only.)

The biggest change is a new online algorithm for estimating feature expectations. This allows estimation to any desired accuracy without memory limitations.

The code will soon also be available in a version for Matlab.

Other changes include bug fixes, new unit tests, a more streamlined code base and a new tutorial.

The algorithm is described in a paper to be submitted for the Interspeech 2005 conference. A link will be posted after the review process.

Nov 30, 2004

Version 0.8.5 of ftwmaxent is now available at SourceForge.

The changes since v0.8 are: