Title
Efficient Learning of Sparse Conditional Random Fields for Supervised Sequence Labelling
Abstract
Conditional Random Fields (CRFs) constitute a popular and efficient approach for supervised sequence labelling. CRFs can cope with large description spaces and can integrate some form of structural dependency between labels. In this contribution, we address the issue of efficient feature selection for CRFs based on imposing sparsity through an L1 penalty. We first show how sparsity of the parameter set can be exploited to significantly speed up training and labelling. We then introduce coordinate descent parameter update schemes for CRFs with L1 regularization. We finally provide some empirical comparisons of the proposed approach with state-of-the-art CRF training strategies. In particular, it is shown that the proposed approach is able to take profit of the sparsity to speed up processing and hence potentially handle larger dimensional models.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1109/JSTSP.2010.2076150
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing
Keywords
DocType
Volume
feature selection,profitability,conditional random field
Journal
4
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
6
1932-4553
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.38
16
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Nataliya Sokolovska1608.14
Thomas Lavergne229825.13
O. Cappe32112207.95
François Yvon4941102.51