Award Date

5-2011

Degree Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Science in Computer Science

Department

Computer Science

First Committee Member

Kazem Taghva, Chair

Second Committee Member

Ajoy K. Datta

Third Committee Member

Laxmi P. Gewali

Graduate Faculty Representative

Venkatesan Muthukumar

Number of Pages

69

Abstract

A Hidden Markov model (HMM) is a statistical Markov model in which the system being modeled is assumed to be a Markov process with unobserved (hidden) states. HMM is an extremely flexible tool and has been successfully applied to a wide variety of stochastic modeling tasks. One of the first applications of HMM is speech recognition. Later they came to be known for their applicability in handwriting recognition, part-of-speech tagging and bio-informatics.

In this thesis, we will explain the mathematics involved in HMMs and how to efficiently perform HMM computations using dynamic programming (DP) which makes it easy to implement HMM. We will also address the practical issues associated with the use of HMM like numerical scaling of conditional probabilities to model long sequences and smoothing of poor probability estimates caused by sparse training data.

Keywords

Dynamic programming; Hidden Markov models; Programming (Mathematics); Stochastic models

Disciplines

Computer Sciences | Statistics and Probability | Theory and Algorithms

File Format

pdf

Degree Grantor

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Language

English

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