The beauty of mathematics in computer science

"A series of essays introducing the applications of machine learning and statistics in natural language processing, speech recognition and web search for non-technical readers"--

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wu, Jun
Format: Printed Book
Subjects:
Computer science
Machine learning.
Table of Contents:
  • Words and languages, numbers and information
  • Natural language processing : from rules to statistics
  • Statistical language model
  • Word segmentation
  • Hidden Markov model
  • Quantifying information
  • Jelinek and modern language processing
  • Boolean algebra and search engines
  • Graph theory and web crawlers
  • PageRank : Google's democratic ranking technology
  • Relevance in web search
  • Finite state machines and dynamic programming : navigation in Google maps
  • Google's AK-47 designer, Dr. Amit Singhal
  • Cosines and news classication
  • Solving classification problems in text processing with matrices
  • Information fingerprinting and its application
  • Thoughts inspired by the Chinese TV series Plot : the mathematical principles of cryptography
  • Not all that glitters is gold : search engine's anti-SPAM problem and search result authoritativeness question
  • Discussion on the importance of mathematical models
  • Don't put all your eggs in one basket : the principle of maximum entropy
  • Mathematical principles of pinyin input method
  • Bloom filters
  • Bayesian network : extension of Markov Chain
  • Conditional random
  • Andrew Viterbi and the Viterbi Algorithm
  • God's algorithm : The expectation maximization algorithm
  • Logistic regression and web search advertisement
  • Google Brain and artificial neural networks
  • The power of big data.

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