Semantic role labeling based on conditional random fields

Due to the fact that semantic role labeling （SRL） is very necessary for deep natural language processing, a method based on conditional random fields （CRFs） is proposed for the SRL task. This method takes shallow syntactic parsing as the foundation, phrases or named entities as the labeled units, and the CRFs model is trained to label the predicates＇ semantic roles in a sentence. The key of the method is parameter estimation and feature selection for the CRFs model. The L-BFGS algorithm was employed for parameter estimation, and three category features： features based on sentence constituents, features based on predicate, and predicate-constituent features as a set of features for the model were selected. Evaluation on the datasets of CoNLL-2005 SRL shared task shows that the method can obtain better performance than the maximum entropy model, and can achieve 80. 43 % precision and 63. 55 % recall for semantic role labeling.

TONE MODELING BASED ON HIDDEN CONDITIONAL RANDOM FIELDS AND DISCRIMINATIVE MODEL WEIGHT TRAINING

The use of hidden conditional random fields （HCRFs） for tone modeling is explored. The tone recognition performance is improved using HCRFs by taking advantage of intra-syllable dynamic, inter-syllable dynamic and duration features. When the tone model is integrated into continuous speech recognition, the discriminative model weight training （DMWT） is proposed. Acoustic and tone scores are scaled by model weights discriminatively trained by the minimum phone error （MPE） criterion. Two schemes of weight training are evaluated and a smoothing technique is used to make training robust to overtraining problem. Experiments show that the accuracies of tone recognition and large vocabulary continuous speech recognition （LVCSR） can be improved by the HCRFs based tone model. Compared with the global weight scheme, continuous speech recognition can be improved by the discriminative trained weight combinations.

Detection and characterization of regulatory elements using probabilistic conditional random field and hidden Markov models

By altering the electrostatic charge of histones or providing binding sites to protein recognition molecules, Chromatin marks have been proposed to regulate gene expression, a property that has motivated researchers to link these marks to cis-regulatory elements. With the help of next generation sequencing technologies, we can now correlate one specific chromatin mark with regulatory elements (e.g. enhancers or promoters) and also build tools, such as hidden Markov models, to gain insight into mark combinations. However, hidden Markov models have limitation for their character of generative models and assume that a current observation depends only on a current hidden state in the chain. Here, we employed two graphical probabilistic models, namely the linear conditional random field model and multivariate hidden Markov model, to mark gene regions with different states based on recurrent and spatially coherent character of these eight marks. Both models revealed chromatin states that may correspond to enhancers and promoters, transcribed regions, transcriptional elongation, and low-signal regions. We also found that the linear conditional random field model was more effective than the hidden Markov model in recognizing regulatory elements, such as promoter-, enhancer-, and transcriptional elongation-associated regions, which gives us a better choice.

Rockhead profile simulation using an improved generation method of conditional random field

Rockhead profile is an important part of geological profiles and can have significant impacts on some geotechnical engineering practice,and thus,it is necessary to establish a useful method to reverse the rockhead profile using site investigation results.As a general method to reflect the spatial distribution of geo-material properties based on field measurements,the conditional random field(CRF)was improved in this paper to simulate rockhead profiles.Besides,in geotechnical engineering practice,measurements are generally limited due to the limitations of budget and time so that the estimation of the mean value can have uncertainty to some extent.As the Bayesian theory can effectively combine the measurements and prior information to deal with uncertainty,CRF was implemented with the aid of the Bayesian framework in this study.More importantly,this simulation procedure is achieved as an analytical solution to avoid the time-consuming sampling work.The results show that the proposed method can provide a reasonable estimation about the rockhead depth at various locations against measurement data and as a result,the subjectivity in determining prior mean can be minimized.Finally,both the measurement data and selection of hyper-parameters in the proposed method can affect the simulated rockhead profiles,while the influence of the latter is less significant than that of the former.

Power entity recognition based on bidirectional long short-term memory and conditional random fields

With the application of artificial intelligence technology in the power industry,the knowledge graph is expected to play a key role in power grid dispatch processes,intelligent maintenance,and customer service response provision.Knowledge graphs are usually constructed based on entity recognition.Specifically,based on the mining of entity attributes and relationships,domain knowledge graphs can be constructed through knowledge fusion.In this work,the entities and characteristics of power entity recognition are analyzed,the mechanism of entity recognition is clarified,and entity recognition techniques are analyzed in the context of the power domain.Power entity recognition based on the conditional random fields (CRF) and bidirectional long short-term memory (BLSTM) models is investigated,and the two methods are comparatively analyzed.The results indicated that the CRF model,with an accuracy of 83%,can better identify the power entities compared to the BLSTM.The CRF approach can thus be applied to the entity extraction for knowledge graph construction in the power field.

A CONDITIONAL RANDOM FIELDS APPROACH TO BIOMEDICAL NAMED ENTITY RECOGNITION

Named entity recognition is a fundamental task in biomedical data mining. In this letter, a named entity recognition system based on CRFs （Conditional Random Fields） for biomedical texts is presented. The system makes extensive use of a diverse set of features, including local features, full text features and external resource features. All features incorporated in this system are described in detail, and the impacts of different feature sets on the performance of the system are evaluated. In order to improve the performance of system, post-processing modules are exploited to deal with the abbreviation phenomena, cascaded named entity and boundary errors identification. Evaluation on this system proved that the feature selection has important impact on the system performance, and the post-processing explored has an important contribution on system performance to achieve better resuits.

Prediction of Potential Disease-Associated MicroRNAs Based on Hidden Conditional Random Field

MicroRNAs( miRNAs) are reported to be associated with various diseases. The identification of disease-related miRNAs would be beneficial to the disease diagnosis and prognosis. However,in contrast with the widely available expression profiling, the limited knowledge of molecular function restrict the development of previous methods based on network similarity measure. To construct reliable training data,the decision fusion method is used to prioritize the results of existing methods. After that,the performance of decision fusion method is validated. Furthermore,in consideration of the long range dependencies of successive expression values,Hidden Conditional Random Field model( HCRF) is selected and applied to miRNA expression profiling to infer disease-associated miRNAs. The results show that HCRF achieves superior performance and outperforms the previous methods. The results also demonstrate the power of using expression profiling for discovering disease-associated miRNAs.

Conditional Random Field Tracking Model Based on a Visual Long Short Term Memory Network

In dense pedestrian tracking,frequent object occlusions and close distances between objects cause difficulty when accurately estimating object trajectories.In this study,a conditional random field tracking model is established by using a visual long short term memory network in the three-dimensional(3D)space and the motion estimations jointly performed on object trajectory segments.Object visual field information is added to the long short term memory network to improve the accuracy of the motion related object pair selection and motion estimation.To address the uncertainty of the length and interval of trajectory segments,a multimode long short term memory network is proposed for the object motion estimation.The tracking performance is evaluated using the PETS2009 dataset.The experimental results show that the proposed method achieves better performance than the tracking methods based on the independent motion estimation.

Adaptive foreground and shadow segmentation using hidden conditional random fields

Video object segmentation is important for video surveillance, object tracking, video object recognition and video editing. An adaptive video segmentation algorithm based on hidden conditional random fields (HCRFs) is proposed, which models spatio-temporal constraints of video sequence. In order to improve the segmentation quality, the weights of spatio-temporal con- straints are adaptively updated by on-line learning for HCRFs. Shadows are the factors affecting segmentation quality. To separate foreground objects from the shadows they cast, linear transform for Gaussian distribution of the background is adopted to model the shadow. The experimental results demonstrated that the error ratio of our algorithm is reduced by 23% and 19% respectively, compared with the Gaussian mixture model (GMM) and spatio-temporal Markov random fields (MRFs).

Characterizing large-scale weak interlayer shear zones using conditional random field theory

The shear behavior of large-scale weak intercalation shear zones(WISZs)often governs the stability of foundations,rock slopes,and underground structures.However,due to their wide distribution,undulating morphology,complex fabrics,and varying degrees of contact states,characterizing the shear behavior of natural and complex large-scale WISZs precisely is challenging.This study proposes an analytical method to address this issue,based on geological fieldwork and relevant experimental results.The analytical method utilizes the random field theory and Kriging interpolation technique to simplify the spatial uncertainties of the structural and fabric features for WISZs into the spatial correlation and variability of their mechanical parameters.The Kriging conditional random field of the friction angle of WISZs is embedded in the discrete element software 3DEC,enabling activation analysis of WISZ C2 in the underground caverns of the Baihetan hydropower station.The results indicate that the activation scope of WISZ C2 induced by the excavation of underground caverns is approximately 0.5e1 times the main powerhouse span,showing local activation.Furthermore,the overall safety factor of WISZ C2 follows a normal distribution with an average value of 3.697.

Exploiting PLSA model and conditional random field for refining image annotation

This paper presents a new method for refining image annotation by integrating probabilistic la- tent semantic analysis （PLSA） with conditional random field （CRF）. First a PLSA model with asymmetric modalities is constructed to predict a candidate set of annotations with confidence scores, and then model semantic relationship among the candidate annotations by leveraging conditional ran- dom field. In CRF, the confidence scores generated lay the PLSA model and the Fliekr distance be- tween pairwise candidate annotations are considered as local evidences and contextual potentials re- spectively. The novelty of our method mainly lies in two aspects ： exploiting PLSA to predict a candi- date set of annotations with confidence scores as well as CRF to further explore the semantic context among candidate annotations for precise image annotation. To demonstrate the effectiveness of the method proposed in this paper, an experiment is conducted on the standard Corel dataset and its re- sults are ＇compared favorably with several state-of-the-art approaches.

A Remote Sensing Image Semantic Segmentation Method by Combining Deformable Convolution with Conditional Random Fields

Currently,deep convolutional neural networks have made great progress in the field of semantic segmentation.Because of the fixed convolution kernel geometry,standard convolution neural networks have been limited the ability to simulate geometric transformations.Therefore,a deformable convolution is introduced to enhance the adaptability of convolutional networks to spatial transformation.Considering that the deep convolutional neural networks cannot adequately segment the local objects at the output layer due to using the pooling layers in neural network architecture.To overcome this shortcoming,the rough prediction segmentation results of the neural network output layer will be processed by fully connected conditional random fields to improve the ability of image segmentation.The proposed method can easily be trained by end-to-end using standard backpropagation algorithms.Finally,the proposed method is tested on the ISPRS dataset.The results show that the proposed method can effectively overcome the influence of the complex structure of the segmentation object and obtain state-of-the-art accuracy on the ISPRS Vaihingen 2D semantic labeling dataset.

Fast Chinese syntactic parsing method based on conditional random fields

A fast method for phrase structure grammar analysis is proposed based on conditional ran- dom fields （CRF）. The method trains several CRF classifiers for recognizing the phrase nodes at dif- ferent levels, and uses the bottom-up to connect the recognized phrase nodes to construct the syn- tactic tree. On the basis of Beijing forest studio Chinese tagged corpus, two experiments are de- signed to select the training parameters and verify the validity of the method. The result shows that the method costs 78. 98 ms and 4. 63 ms to train and test a Chinese sentence of 17. 9 words. The method is a new way to parse the phrase structure grammar for Chinese, and has good generalization ability and fast speed.

Standardization of Robot Instruction Elements Based on Conditional Random Fields and Word Embeddin

Natural language processing has got great progress recently. Controlling robots with spoken natural language has become expectable. With the reliability problem of this kind of control in mind a confirmation process of natural language instruction should be included before carried out by the robot autonomously and the prototype dialog system was designed thus the standardization problem was raised for the natural and understandable language interaction. In the application background of remotely navigating a mobile robot inside a building with Chinese natural spoken language considering that as an important navigation element in instructions a place name can be expressed with different lexical terms in spoken language this paper proposes a model for substituting different alternatives of a place name with a standard one (called standardization). First a CRF (Conditional Random Fields) model is trained to label the term required be standardized then a trained word embedding model is to represent lexical terms as digital vectors. In the vector space similarity of lexical terms is defined and used to find out the most similar one to the term picked out to be standardized. Experiments show that the method proposed works well and the dialog system responses to confirm the instructions are natural and understandable.

An Image Segmentation Algorithm Based on a Local Region Conditional Random Field Model

To reduce the computation cost of a combined probabilistic graphical model and a deep neural network in semantic segmentation, the local region condition random field (LRCRF) model is investigated which selectively applies the condition random field (CRF) to the most active region in the image. The full convolutional network structure is optimized with the ResNet-18 structure and dilated convolution to expand the receptive field. The tracking networks are also improved based on SiameseFC by considering the frame relations in consecutive-frame traffic scene maps. Moreover, the segmentation results of the greyscale input data sets are more stable and effective than using the RGB images for deep neural network feature extraction. The experimental results show that the proposed method takes advantage of the image features directly and achieves good real-time performance and high segmentation accuracy.

Enhanced Identifying Gene Names from Biomedical Literature with Conditional Random Fields

Identifying gene names is an attractive research area of biology computing. However, accurate extraction of gene names is a challenging task with the lack of conventions for describing gene names. We devise a systematical architecture and apply the model using conditional random fields （CRFs） for extracting gene names from Medline. In order to improve the performance, biomedical ontology features are inserted into the model and post processing including boundary adjusting and word filter is presented to solve name overlapping problem and remove false positive single words. Pure string match method, baseline CRFs, and CRFs with our methods are applied to human gene names and HIV gene names extraction respectively in 1100 abstracts of Medline and their performances are contrasted. Results show that CRFs are robust for unseen gene names. Furthermore, CRFs with our methods outperforms other methods with precision 0.818 and recall 0.812.

Fast segmentation approach for SAR image based on simple Markov random field

Traditional image segmentation methods based on MRF converge slowly and require pre-defined weight. These disadvantages are addressed, and a fast segmentation approach based on simple Markov random field （MRF） for SAR image is proposed. The approach is firstly used to perform coarse segmentation in blocks. Then the image is modeled with simple MRF and adaptive variable weighting forms are applied in homogeneous and heterogeneous regions. As a result, the convergent speed is accelerated while the segmentation results in homogeneous regions and boarders are improved. Simulations with synthetic and real SAR images demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach.

CLOUD IMAGE DETECTION BASED ON MARKOV RANDOM FIELD

In order to overcome the disadvantages of low accuracy rate, high complexity and poor robustness to image noise in many traditional algorithms of cloud image detection, this paper proposed a novel algorithm on the basis of Markov Random Field (MRF) modeling. This paper first defined algorithm model and derived the core factors affecting the performance of the algorithm, and then, the solving of this algorithm was obtained by the use of Belief Propagation (BP) algorithm and Iterated Conditional Modes (ICM) algorithm. Finally, experiments indicate that this algorithm for the cloud image detection has higher average accuracy rate which is about 98.76% and the average result can also reach 96.92% for different type of image noise.

STABC-IR:An air target intention recognition method based on bidirectional gated recurrent unit and conditional random field with space-time attention mechanism

The battlefield environment is changing rapidly,and fast and accurate identification of the tactical intention of enemy targets is an important condition for gaining a decision-making advantage.The current Intention Recognition(IR)method for air targets has shortcomings in temporality,interpretability and back-and-forth dependency of intentions.To address these problems,this paper designs a novel air target intention recognition method named STABC-IR,which is based on Bidirectional Gated Recurrent Unit(Bi GRU)and Conditional Random Field(CRF)with Space-Time Attention mechanism(STA).First,the problem of intention recognition of air targets is described and analyzed in detail.Then,a temporal network based on Bi GRU is constructed to achieve the temporal requirement.Subsequently,STA is proposed to focus on the key parts of the features and timing information to meet certain interpretability requirements while strengthening the timing requirements.Finally,an intention transformation network based on CRF is proposed to solve the back-and-forth dependency and transformation problem by jointly modeling the tactical intention of the target at each moment.The experimental results show that the recognition accuracy of the jointly trained STABC-IR model can reach 95.7%,which is higher than other latest intention recognition methods.STABC-IR solves the problem of intention transformation for the first time and considers both temporality and interpretability,which is important for improving the tactical intention recognition capability and has reference value for the construction of command and control auxiliary decision-making system.