... .5.ity of the transition distributions, are stronger than the effects of β, which determines the probability of the output distributions. The optimal value of .003 for α reflects the fact that the ... inter-changeable. We therefore introduce another evalua-tion measure for these experiments, a distance met-ric on clusterings known as variation of information(Meilˇa, 2002). The variation of information ... of 74.5%,and is closer to the 90.1% accuracy of CRF/CE on the same data set using oracle parameter selection. The effects of α, which determines the probabil-2Results of CRF/CE depend on the...