Markov.py

[Carel Fellinger]

Alex Martelli <aleaxit at yahoo.com> wrote:
> "Carel Fellinger" <cfelling at iae.nl> wrote in message
> news:94ides$6t2$1 at animus.fel.iae.nl...
>     [snip]
>> well I don't, so please enlighten me: what's a markov chain?

> A somewhat complex (but complete, correct, concise) definition
> can be found at http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/ASC/MARKOV_CHAIN.html.

just stumbled on this the other day when I finally `googled' for
Markov chain.  Thanks for the other links, nice reading:)

...
> I have a tender spot in my heart for HMM's ever since using
> them in the early '80s for speech recognition and natural
> language modeling... they give you all that 'neural networks'
> are supposed to, with a very solid and mature mathematical basis
> ["everything is an application of Bayes' Theorem"!-)] and, as
> a result, lots of confidence in the results you're getting!

Funny, in those days I was more into Montague Grammers and Natural
Language Machine Translation (mainly on the implementation side of a
very formal approach under the guidance of Jan Landsbergen).  We used
to look with dedain to people using stochastic models in the field:)

-- 
groetjes, carel