[Corpora-List] robust statistics

[John Burger]

Rainer Ottmueller wrote:

> My first impression is that Robust statistics is not used in all NLP.
> Please confirm or decline.

Lots of use of Support Vector Machines, especially in topic  
identification, etc.  SVMs are arguably quite consistent with the  
ideas of robust statistics, since they are fairly resistant to  
outliers and certain kinds of model violations.

- John D. Burger
   MITRE


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