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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 28, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 17, 2008
Jianfeng Gao, Kirkland, WA (US);
Yi Su, Baltimore, MD (US);
Qiang Wu, Sammamish, WA (US);
Chris J. C. Burges, Bellevue, WA (US);
Krysta Svore, Seattle, WA (US);
Elbio Renato Torres Abib, Redmond, WA (US);
Jianfeng Gao, Kirkland, WA (US);
Yi Su, Baltimore, MD (US);
Qiang Wu, Sammamish, WA (US);
Chris J. C. Burges, Bellevue, WA (US);
Krysta Svore, Seattle, WA (US);
Elbio Renato Torres Abib, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Model adaptation may be performed to take a general model trained with a set of training data (possibly large), and adapt the model using a set of domain-specific training data (possibly small). The parameters, structure, or configuration of a model trained in one domain (called the background domain) may be adapted to a different domain (called the adaptation domain), for which there may be a limited amount of training data. The adaption may be performed using the Boosting Algorithm to select an optimal basis function that optimizes a measure of error of the model as it is being iteratively refined, i.e., adapted.