A Derivationof the Inside-Outside Algorithm from the EM Algorithm

This note is a technical supplement to [4], The purpose is to show how the Inside-Outside algorithm is a special case of the EM algorithm [3], and to derive the parameter update formulas.

By: John D. Lafferty

Published in: RC21636 in 2000

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