@PhdThesis{daume06thesis, author = {Hal {Daum\'e III}}, title = {Practical Structured Learning Techniques for Natural Language Processing}, school = {University of Southern California}, year = {2006}, address = {Los Angeles, CA}, month = {August}, keywords = {sp nlp ml}, tagline = {Committee: D. Marcu, K. Knight, E. Hovy, S. Schaal, G. James, A. McCallum.
This thesis describes an algorithm for solving many of the complex prediction problems encountered in NLP applications. The algorithm comes with strong theoretical guarentees, is empirically effective in applications such as IE and summarization, is efficient and is easy to implement.}, url = {http://pub.hal3.name/#daume06thesis} }